Interobserver agreement provides a measurement of reliability in the recording of data being collected
Discuss the biases that can affect interobserver agreement.
What will be an ideal response?
Reactivity – The concept that a student's behavior may change (positive or negative) due to the awareness
that they are being observed. Observer drift – The concept that overtime the observer's stringency to the operational definition may change. Complexity – The difficulty associated with complex coding systems in ensuring reliability. Expectancy – The concept that an observers expectancy of the student to exhibit certain behaviors based on prior knowledge of the student.
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The difference between closed-word sorts and open-word sorts is that in the former the students
A) ?simply group the concepts. B) ?have to title each category. C) ?are given the categories in advance. D) ?never put words into categories.
Functional exclusion of disabled children occurs when children with disabilities:
a. Receive a highly inappropriate placement that denies them the opportunity to receive an appropriate education b. Do not receive a free public school education c. Are misdiagnosed regarding need transitional services d. Excluded from public schools and placed in a private facility
Which is not true of construct evidence? a. It is the degree to which scores on a test can be accounted for by theexplanatory constructs of a sound theory
b. It is the degree to which an instrument's scores are systematicallyrelated to the judgments made by observation of behavioridentified by a theory as dominant. c. Intelligence tests require adequate construct validity but it is notparticularly important for aptitude tests. d. It is particularly important for personality tests.
A dataset in which the measures of central tendency are approximately equal to each other, thus creating a symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution of scores, is called a(n) ______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).