Observational Design
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- Observational Design
- standardised, planned & systematic and they objectively observe and record behaviour
- The way to record data is to make a tally chart of the different behaviour categories that you have chosen to observe.
- Event sampling
- Event sampling consists of the researcher recording an event every time it happens
- WEAKNESS
- It may be difficult to record all behaviours if some happen at the same time so important information may be missed.
- STRENGTH
- Useful when target behaviour happens infrequently and could be missed if time sampling was used.
- Time sampling
- Time sampling occurs when the researcher records behavior in a fixed time period
- STRENGTH
- Effective in reducing the number of observations that have to be made.
- WEAKNESS
- The instances when a behaviour is sampled might be unrepresentative of the observation as a whole.
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