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ERIC Number: EJ986472
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1053-0819
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The Effects of Graphing a Second Observer's Data on Judgments of Functional Relations in A-B-A-B Graphs
Ledford, Jennifer R.; Wolery, Mark; Meeker, Kathleen Artman; Wehby, Joseph H.
Journal of Behavioral Education, v21 n4 p350-364 Dec 2012
Collection of interobserver agreement data and reporting the results with summary statistics are standard practices in single-case research. An alternative to summary statistics is plotting the second observer's data on the same graph as the primary observer. In this study, we evaluated whether plotting the second observer's data differentially influenced the judgments about functional relations for A-B-A-B designs. Participants were graduate students and experts. Results suggested that (a) experts made more accurate judgments than graduate students, (b) raters made more accurate judgments for graphs with 1 rather than 2 primary data paths, and (c) raters were not influenced differentially in their judgments of functional relations by the presence or absence of the second observer's plotted data. In addition to standard hypothesis testing, equivalence testing was performed and showed accuracy of judgments was equivalent for graphs with and without the second observers' data being added.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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