Department of Behavior Analysis, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2012 Winter;45(4):779-95. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-779.
We evaluated interrater agreement across multiple respondents on anecdotal assessments and compared cases in which agreement was obtained with outcomes of functional analyses. Experiment 1 evaluated agreement among multiple respondents on the function of problem behavior for 27 individuals across 42 target behaviors using the Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS) and the Questions about Behavioral Function (QABF). Results showed that at least 4 of 5 respondents agreed on the primary maintaining consequence for 52% (22 of 42) of target behaviors with the MAS and 57% (24 of 42) with the QABF. Experiment 2 examined correspondence between the anecdotal assessment results and functional analysis results for 7 individuals for whom at least 4 of 5 respondents showed agreement in Experiment 1. Correspondence with functional analysis results was observed in 6 of 7 cases with the QABF and in 4 of 7 cases with the MAS. Implications of these outcomes for the utility of anecdotal assessments are discussed.
我们评估了多位受访者对轶事评估的评分者间一致性,并比较了在哪些情况下,这种一致性与功能分析的结果一致。实验 1 使用动机评估量表(MAS)和行为功能问题问卷(QABF),评估了 42 项目标行为中 27 个人的问题行为功能的多位受访者之间的一致性。结果表明,MAS 对 52%(22/42)的目标行为,QABF 对 57%(24/42)的目标行为,至少有 4 位受访者同意主要维持后果。实验 2 为在实验 1 中至少有 4 位受访者表示一致的 7 位个体,检验轶事评估结果与功能分析结果的一致性。QABF 在 6 个案例中与功能分析结果一致,MAS 在 4 个案例中与功能分析结果一致。讨论了这些结果对轶事评估效用的影响。