Observational Designs

Sampling Types

Time:

• measure behaviour during intervals/times
• observation of all subjects
• time consuming

Event:

• note down each time behaviour occurs 
• focus on target behaviours
• not representative of all subjects
• behaviours outside of the behavioural categories are missed

During Sampling

Structured:

• list of expected events (based on behavioural categories)
• write down all of the target behaviour that occurs
• quantitative data 
• …