A formal method of observation and recording where you record target behaviors during preset, uniform time intervals.
What is time sampling?
100
A recording of target behaviors that quantifies how frequently they occur.
What is a frequency count?
100
Often used by teachers to develop an understanding of a child's behavior, and to communicate child's behaviors to a parent.
What is anecdotal record?
100
One of the methods that records behaviors in detail and accounts for the context where the behaviors occur.
What is anecdotal record?
What is event sampling?
What is narrative description?
100
It may divert a teacher's attention from other children in the classroom.
What is anecdotal recording?
What is running record?
200
An observation method that denotes the simple presence or absence of target behavior(s).
What is checklist?
200
A desirable feature of behavior samples. A word to describe samples of behavior that reflect typical behaviors that would take place in the observation setting.
What is a representative or representativeness?
200
Often used to acquire baseline data on "problem" behaviors.
What is frequency count?
200
It is one of the quick and easy methods (there are three).
What is frequency count?
What is checklist?
What is rating scale?
200
It is vulnerable to memory lapse errors on the part of the observer because it records behavior AFTER it occurs.
What is anecdotal record?
300
A detailed, running account of behavior that is either typical or unusual for the child. Often used by teachers.
What is an anecdotal record?
300
A grocery list is an example of this type of observation method.
What is a checklist?
300
Can be used to observe not only behaviors, but how space or materials are used in a classroom.
What is event sampling?
300
It compares a child against a list of criteria or a set of developmental milestones.
What is checklist?
300
This method is subject to bias because 1) the behaviors were predefined by someone else and 2) the observer has to understand what he/she is looking for and recognize it when it occurs.
What is checklist?
400
Observation method that waits for a specific target behavior to occur, then records it after it occurs.
What is event sampling?
400
The degree to which two or more observers agree with one another as to what occurred during an observation session.
What is inter-observer reliability?
400
Can be used to record a specific child's total number of prosocial behaviors and antisocial behaviors in a given time period.
What is frequency count?
400
It preserves raw data; the raw data can be re-analyzed at a later time.
What is narrative description?
What is anecdotal recording?
400
Observation method(s) that require(s) intense writing.
What is anecdotal recording?
What is narrative description?
500
Observation method where you continuously record in as much detail as possible everything the child does and says.
What is narrative description?
500
A variation on frequency count in which the observer records how long a target behavior lasts.
What is duration record?
500
You would use this method to record whether a specific child sits unassisted, creeps, pulls to standing position, walks holding onto furniture.
What is checklist?
500
It reduces complex behaviors into a single tally.
What is frequency count?
(What is checklist?)
500
This method (or methods) reveal(s) very little about the context or the details of the observed behavior.