Observational Design

Question 1

What is event sampling?

Answer 1

Involves counting the number of times a particular behaviour occurs in a group

Question 2

What is time sampling?

Answer 2

Recording behaviour within a pre-established timeframe

Question 3

What is continuous recording?

Answer 3

Key feature of a unstructured observation in which all instances of a target are recorded

Question 4

What are the different types of sampling?

Answer 4

Random sampling
Systematic sampling
Opportunity sampling
Stratified sampling
Volunteer sampling

Question 5

What is inter - rather reliability?

Answer 5

The extent to which two or more observers agree and record the same thing

Question 6

How can the inter - rater reliability be assessed ?

Answer 6

Assess it by correlating the results
If correlation Co-efficient is weak then you need to improve the study