A clinician has developed a new assessment tool. Clients write stories about their problems, and then two different judges independently evaluate the stories in terms of how logically they are written. For this assessment technique to be useful, there must be:

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High interrater reliability is necessary for this assessment tool to be useful because it involves two different judges independently evaluating the same stories. If there is low agreement between the judges, the results will not be reliable. Low observer reliability and low test-retest reliability would also be problematic, but split-half reliability would not be relevant in this scenario.

A Clinician Has Developed a New Assessment Tool