Afiya wanted to assess the reliability of students' observations of children's aggressive behavior so she had two students observe 100 behaviors displayed by each of 50 children while engaged in play. After viewing each behavior the students recorded the behavior as being aggressive or nonaggresive. Afiya then computed the percentage of times the two students agreed on their assessment of each behavior. Afiya used what method of assessing reliability?
A) interobserver agreement
B) Cronbach's alpha
C) internal consistency reliability
D) test-retest reliability

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Afiya used interobserver agreement to assess reliability, which involves comparing the assessments of two or more observers to determine the consistency of their observations.

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