CONTINUOUS RECORDING AND INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT ALGORITHMS REPORTED IN THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (1995-2005)

• Published in: Journal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 165 - 169
• Main Authors: Mudford, Oliver C., Taylor, Sarah Ann, Martin, Neil T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Subjects: Accuracy; Agreements; Algorithms; Applied behavior analysis; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Behavioral Science Research; Computation; Computer Software; computers; Conditioning, Operant; continuous recording; Data Analysis; Data collection; Data Collection - trends; Evaluation Methods; Humans; interobserver agreement; Interrater Reliability; Literature Reviews; Measurement; Methods; Observation; observational data; Observer Variation; Periodicals; Periodicals as Topic; Psychological Patterns; Psychology, Applied - methods; recording and measurement; Research Design - trends; Research Methodology; Sampling; Studies; Teaching Methods; Writers; interobserver agreement; continuous recording; observational data; computers; recording and measurement
• ISSN: 0021-8855; 1938-3703
• DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-165

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.