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The Reliability and Validity of One‐zero Sampling: misconceived criticisms and unacknowledged assumptions

Author(s) -

Smith Peter K.

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

british educational research journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1469-3518

pISSN - 0141-1926

DOI - 10.1080/0141192850110302

Subject(s) - observational study , confusion , sampling (signal processing) , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , rest (music) , zero (linguistics) , observational methods in psychology , test validity , statistics , validity , duration (music) , social psychology , psychometrics , mathematics , computer science , clinical psychology , philosophy , linguistics , filter (signal processing) , psychoanalysis , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , cardiology , computer vision , medicine , physics , art , literature

Dunkerton (1981) has argued that one‐zero sampling methods are useless for quantitative observational research in classrooms. His conclusions rest on a confusion of reliability and validity, on unjustified confidence in the importance of absolute values of frequency and duration of behaviours, and a misunderstanding of the nature ofscientific measurement. Observational procedures do need to be clearly specified, butone‐zero sampling provides a useful choice of method in many circumstances.

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