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Continuous recording and interobserver agreement algorithms reported in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Oliver C Mudford1, Sarah Ann Taylor, Neil T Martin
1Applied Behaviour Analysis Programme, Department of Psychology, University of Auckland (Tamaki Campus), Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. o.mudford@auckland.ac.nz
Abstract:
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.
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