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The Functional Analysis Checklist: Inter‐rater and Test–Retest Reliability
Author(s) -
Sturmey Peter
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-3148.2001.00062.x
Subject(s) - checklist , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , inter rater reliability , test (biology) , sample (material) , population , clinical psychology , statistics , applied psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , mathematics , cognitive psychology , rating scale , environmental health , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , biology
The inter‐rater and test–retest reliability of the Functional Analysis Checklist (FAC) was evaluated for a random sample of target behaviours from a random sample of individuals in behaviour therapy programmes in a state school population. The reliability of the FAC was uniformly poor. This poor reliability was ascribed to the low frequency with which most items on the FAC were endorsed, the lack of training in functional assessment that most raters had, and the very variable forms and rates of behaviour problems rated.