Continuous Recording and Interobserver Agreement Algorithms Reported in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (1995-2005)

We reviewed all research articles in 10 recent volumes of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA): Vol. 28(3), 1995, through Vol. 38(2), 2005. Continuous recording was used in the majority (55%) of the 168 articles reporting data on free-operant human behaviors. Three methods for reporting i...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 165 - 170
Autores principales:	Mudford, Oliver C., Taylor, Sarah Ann, Martin, Neil T.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Spring2009
Materias:	Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (Periodical) Inter-observer reliability Algorithms Observation (Psychology)
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Sumario:	We reviewed all research articles in 10 recent volumes of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA): Vol. 28(3), 1995, through Vol. 38(2), 2005. Continuous recording was used in the majority (55%) of the 168 articles reporting data on free-operant human behaviors. Three methods for reporting interobserver agreement (exact agreement, block-by-block agreement, and time-window analysis) were employed in more than 10 of the articles that reported continuous recording. Having identified these currently popular agreement computation algorithms, we explain them to assist researchers, software writers, and other consumers of JABA articles. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.