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INTER‐INFORMANT AGREEMENT ON THE MOTIVATION ASSESSMENT SCALE: ANOTHER FAILURE TO REPLICATE
Author(s) -
Thompson Sarah,
Emerson Eric
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
mental handicap research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 0952-9608
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1995.tb00156.x
Subject(s) - replicate , psychology , inter rater reliability , scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , agreement , clinical psychology , rating scale , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics , power (physics) , physics , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics
The present study evaluated inter‐informant agreement on the Motivation Assessment Scale across 42 topographies of challenging behaviour in five children with severe intellectual disabilities. The results revealed unacceptably low levels of inter‐rater reliability on all sub‐scales of the MAS and unacceptably low levels of inter‐informant agreement on the purported behavioural function of the rated challenging behaviours.