Event Recording Observation

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Event recording would be the best method for monitoring the child’s behavior over a long period of time. Both partial interval recording and duration recording involve the amount of time the students behavior is occurring. However, his target behavior, yelling out when not called upon, is not a time ordinated behavior, rather a quantitating behavior (or the amount of times the behavior occurs). Partial interval record also often overestimates the about of time the behavior is observed and there can be room for error while observing using duration recording (not writing down the exact time the student starts or finishes). Event recording, however, is more accurate and reliable. The child either preforms the behavior or he or she does not. Using