Glossary C

Crisis interview is defined as an interview conducted for the following purposes: (a) defusing or problem solving through the crisis at hand; and (b) encouraging the individual to enter into a therapeutic relationship at the agency or elsewhere so that a longer term solution can be worked out.

Criss-cross or reverse directories are directories that allow various means of referencing information

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Criterial attribute refers to an expression used by Bruner Bruner to describe the characteristics of objects, events, or experiences that define their membership in a category - in other words, that are essential to their being what they are.

Criterion may be defined as a measure of job performance, such as attendance, productivity, or a supervisor rating.

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Criterion group refers to division of employees into groups based on high and low scores on a particular criterion.

Criterion validity refers to the extent to which a test score is related to some measure of job performance. Criterion validity demonstrates that scores are related systematically to one or more outcome criteria, either now (concurrent validity ) or in the future (predictive validity).

- Criterion validity evidence : Criterion validity evidence is defined as the evidence that a test score corresponds to an accurate measure of interest. Criterion is defined as measure of interest.

Criterion variable is a term used in a Correlational study, a researcher is usually interested in the relationship between two (2) variables in order to use knowledge about one variable to help predict or explain the second variable. In this situation, the second variable which is being explained or predicted is called the Criterion variable.