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- Title
Rates of responding measured by continuous recording in applied behavioral research.
- Authors
Mudford, Oliver C.; Locke, Janine M.; Jeffrey, Kylie
- Abstract
There is no published source that can inform behavioral measurement research about typical response rates measured by continuous recording in applied behavior analysis. The present study was designed to determine the distribution of data on rate of responding reported across a recent 10-volume (1998-2007) sample of research articles from the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Rate of responding was measured for 20 553 datapoints in 360 sets of data (one participant in one graph) presented in 60 research articles. The majority of datapoints showed response rates of less than 1.0 response per minute, with 28.3% at zero. The highest rate reported was 104.5 responses per minute. The maximum response rate in datasets was more than 1.0 response per minute in 96.7% of datasets, indicating that continuous recording has been employed in research in which a relatively high rate of responding was recorded at some time during the study. The data from this report will assist researchers to determine empirically the representativeness of response rates in studies of measurement in applied behavior analysis. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
RESEARCH methodology; ANALYSIS of variance; BEHAVIOR; SCIENTIFIC observation; RESEARCH evaluation; BEHAVIORAL research; EVALUATION
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.323