Social validity assessments: is current practice state of the art?

Abstract:

:The use of evaluative feedback from consumers to guide program planning and evaluation is often referred to as the assessment of social validity. Differing views of its role and value in applied behavior analysis have emerged, and increasingly stereotyped assessments of social validity are becoming commonplace. This paper argues that current applications of social validity assessments are straying from the point originally proposed for them. Thus, several suggestions for improving current social validity assessment are proposed, including (a) expanding the definition of consumers to acknowledge the variety of community members able and likely to affect a program's survival, (b) increasing the psychometric rigor of social validity assessments, (c) extending assessment to heretofore underrepresented populations, (d) implementing widespread application of well-designed social validity assessments, (e) increasing meaningful consumer involvement in the planning and evaluation of behavioral programs, and (f) educating consumers to make better informed programming decisions.

journal_name

J Appl Behav Anal

authors

Schwartz IS,Baer DM

doi

10.1901/jaba.1991.24-189

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-07-01 00:00:00

pages

189-204

issue

2

eissn

0021-8855

issn

1938-3703

journal_volume

24

pub_type

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