Question: You've been asked to collect data on a behavior that occurs with high frequency in a classroom. You cannot be there all day, so you

You've been asked to collect data on a behavior that occurs with high frequency in a classroom. You cannot be there all day, so you must collect discontinuous data. The teacher asks you to observe during a time when he says the behavior seems to occur constantly (i.e., not discrete). Since you are doing nothing but observe, you decide to collect partial-interval data to get an estimate of the percentage of time that the individual engages in the behavior. When you finish you think, "That can't be correct" because your data suggest that the behavior IS occurring over 96% of the session. Fortunately, the session was videotaped and you take the recording to a colleague and ask them to collect the same type of data on the same behavior of the same individual. Afterwards, you compare the two records and calculate IOA. Given: a) the type of data you collected, and b) the level of behavior, which method should you use to calculate IOA between the two records? Interval-by-Interval IOA Scored-Interval IOA Unscored-Interval IOA Exact Count-per-Interval IOA

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