Effects of Instructional Set and Experimenter Influence On Observer Reliability, No. 11
| dc.contributor.author | Taplin, Paul S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Reid, John B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-29T22:10:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-29T22:10:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1972 | |
| dc.description | 25 pages | |
| dc.description.abstract | A laboratory analog of naturalistic observation was used to examine the relationship of observer drift to instructional set and experimenter status. Three instructional sets (no check, random check, and spot check) and two levels of experimenter . status were studied . Results indicated a highly significant decrease in observer reliability coinciding with the shift from training to data collection. This performance decrement was observed in all three instructional set conditions. Within the spot-check condition, reliability on spot-check days was found to be significantly greater than mean reliability immediately before and after spot checks. Further results revealed that observers trained by the high status experimenter performed less reliably than observers trained by the other two experimenters. The possible implications of these results for future observational research, and suggestions for minimizing observer drift were discussed. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/30366 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Oregon Research Institute | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | |
| dc.subject | observer reality, no check, spot check, reliability, experiment | |
| dc.title | Effects of Instructional Set and Experimenter Influence On Observer Reliability, No. 11 | |
| dc.type | Other |