Deck 14: Observing Teacher and Student Behavior

Question 1

What advantage do time lines have over real time in duration recording?

A) More valid.
B) More reliable.
C) All of these.
D) Preserve sequence.

Answer 1

Preserve sequence.

Question 2

Intuitive observation is most useful for

A) identifying glaring errors.
B) identifying what to look at later more specifically.
C) generating hypotheses.
D) All of these.

Answer 2

All of these.

Question 3

In terms of reliability of an observation tool

A) the more levels of discrimination the easier to get reliability.
B) three levels of discrimination is the best number of levels for reliability.
C) the fewer levels of discrimination the easier to get reliability.
D) the number of levels of discrimination does not affect reliability.

Answer 3

the fewer levels of discrimination the easier to get reliability.

Question 4

Reliability in event recording can be increased by

A) All of these.
B) carefully designed definitions.
C) choosing to look at behaviors for which quantitative information is useful.
D) decreasing the number of events to be recorded.

Question 5

Which of the following instruments would teachers use to determine the amount of time students are engaged in motor activity at an appropriate level of difficulty?

A) CAFIAS.
B) OSCD-PE.
C) All of these.
D) ALT-PE.

Question 6

Which of the following techniques are useful to observe events that do not change quickly?

A) Time sampling.
B) Event recording.
C) Rating scale.
D) Anecdotal record.

Question 7

Which of the following techniques would be most useful for collecting information on how students spend their time?

A) category system.
B) event recording.
C) duration recording.
D) rating scale.

Question 8

Intuitive observation

A) is a systematic technique.
B) is used for the observation of specific events.
C) can be very reliable.
D) is not a formal observation technique.

Question 9

When you observe using an anecdotal record technique judgments about events are

A) made during record taking.
B) made after recording.
C) not made.
D) made during instrument design.

Question 10

Which of the following instruments would give you information on task presentation?

A) ALT-PE.
B) QMTPS.
C) All of these.
D) TPE.

Question 11

For interview data to be helpful teachers should

A) prepare the questions ahead of time.
B) interview all students.
C) All of these.
D) make sure you have at least an hour with each student.

Question 12

Which of the following recording procedures can be used with ALT-PE?

A) All of these.
B) Duration recording.
C) Event recording.
D) Interval recording.