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Baer, Donald M. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1993
This commentary on EC 608 301 points out that devotion to the natural science canon of experimental proof in the area of generality testing requires proof procedures that are difficult, expensive, or impossible, but adopting a different canon of proof will not produce the desired certainty about the accuracy of the answer. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavioral Science Research, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedHenry, Bill; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Extent of agreement between retrospective and prospective measures of variables in 7 content domains (residence change, anthropometrics, injuries, reading ability, family characteristics, behavior problems, and delinquency) was studied for 1,037 New Zealand adolescents. Absolute agreement among measures was poor, suggesting caution when using…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Cohort Analysis, Correlation
