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This chapter offers explicit instruction in the area of data collection, a cornerstone to the functional behavioral assessment process. The reader will learn how to conduct a reliable classroom observation using methods appropriate to the target behavior. Additionally, the chapter outlines a variety of data collection methods that allow the user to measure behavior through antecedent-behavior-consequence (ABC) data gathering, event recording, interval recording, duration recording, and/or latency recording.
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Hadaway, S., Brue, A. (2016). Process: Observation. In: Practitioner’s Guide to Functional Behavioral Assessment. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23721-3_8
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