EDF 6226 FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which type of graph would be best to look at temporal distribution of response? -
✔✔Scatterplot
✔✔What type of graph is best used to display proportional change? - ✔✔Ratio chart
✔✔High variability indicates ____ control - ✔✔low
✔✔What is level in visual analysis of graphs - ✔✔The value on the vertical axis scale
around which a set of behavioral measures occurs
✔✔What is trend in visual analysis of graphs? - ✔✔Direction taken by the data path
✔✔measurement - ✔✔the process of applying quantative labels to observed properties
of events using a standard set of rules
✔✔indirect measures of assessment - ✔✔usually first step
-interviews
-checklists
✔✔direct measure of assessment - ✔✔best way
-tests
-direct observation
✔✔benefits of measurement - ✔✔-legitimizes treatment
-increases effectiveness
-accountability
✔✔three fundamental properties of measurement - ✔✔repeatability
temportal extent
temporal locus
✔✔measurable dimensions of behavior - ✔✔features that can be measured
✔✔repeatability - ✔✔behavior can be counted
✔✔temporal extent - ✔✔duration of behavior
✔✔temporal locus - ✔✔when behavior occurs
✔✔derivative measures - ✔✔percentage
proportion of correct-incorrect
, trials-to-criterion
proportion of observation intervals when behavior occurs
✔✔percentage - ✔✔ratio formed by combining the same dimensional qualities
(expresses proportional qauntity)
✔✔trials to criterion - ✔✔measure of the number of response opportunities needed to
achieve a predetrermiend level of preformance
✔✔definitional measures - ✔✔topography- what it looks like
magnitude- force or intensity
✔✔procedures for measuring behavior - ✔✔event recording
timing
time sampling
✔✔questions to determine appropriate measurement - ✔✔-is real-time measurement
needed?
-can it be measured by permanent product?
-cost to obtain/measure the premanent product?
-will contrived product affect behavior?
✔✔vailidity - ✔✔extent to which data obtained from measurement are directly relevant
to the target behavior
✔✔accuracy - ✔✔extent to which observed values and the data from measurement
match the true state or values of the event
✔✔reliability - ✔✔consistency of measurement, repeated measurement yeilds the same
results
✔✔line graphs - ✔✔most common graph
✔✔parts of line graph - ✔✔x/y axis
axis labels
condition change labels
condition labels
data points
data path
figure caption
✔✔horizontal axis - ✔✔x axis
shows absence or presence of ID
✔✔vertical axis - ✔✔y axis
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which type of graph would be best to look at temporal distribution of response? -
✔✔Scatterplot
✔✔What type of graph is best used to display proportional change? - ✔✔Ratio chart
✔✔High variability indicates ____ control - ✔✔low
✔✔What is level in visual analysis of graphs - ✔✔The value on the vertical axis scale
around which a set of behavioral measures occurs
✔✔What is trend in visual analysis of graphs? - ✔✔Direction taken by the data path
✔✔measurement - ✔✔the process of applying quantative labels to observed properties
of events using a standard set of rules
✔✔indirect measures of assessment - ✔✔usually first step
-interviews
-checklists
✔✔direct measure of assessment - ✔✔best way
-tests
-direct observation
✔✔benefits of measurement - ✔✔-legitimizes treatment
-increases effectiveness
-accountability
✔✔three fundamental properties of measurement - ✔✔repeatability
temportal extent
temporal locus
✔✔measurable dimensions of behavior - ✔✔features that can be measured
✔✔repeatability - ✔✔behavior can be counted
✔✔temporal extent - ✔✔duration of behavior
✔✔temporal locus - ✔✔when behavior occurs
✔✔derivative measures - ✔✔percentage
proportion of correct-incorrect
, trials-to-criterion
proportion of observation intervals when behavior occurs
✔✔percentage - ✔✔ratio formed by combining the same dimensional qualities
(expresses proportional qauntity)
✔✔trials to criterion - ✔✔measure of the number of response opportunities needed to
achieve a predetrermiend level of preformance
✔✔definitional measures - ✔✔topography- what it looks like
magnitude- force or intensity
✔✔procedures for measuring behavior - ✔✔event recording
timing
time sampling
✔✔questions to determine appropriate measurement - ✔✔-is real-time measurement
needed?
-can it be measured by permanent product?
-cost to obtain/measure the premanent product?
-will contrived product affect behavior?
✔✔vailidity - ✔✔extent to which data obtained from measurement are directly relevant
to the target behavior
✔✔accuracy - ✔✔extent to which observed values and the data from measurement
match the true state or values of the event
✔✔reliability - ✔✔consistency of measurement, repeated measurement yeilds the same
results
✔✔line graphs - ✔✔most common graph
✔✔parts of line graph - ✔✔x/y axis
axis labels
condition change labels
condition labels
data points
data path
figure caption
✔✔horizontal axis - ✔✔x axis
shows absence or presence of ID
✔✔vertical axis - ✔✔y axis
