Embracing our visual inspection and analysis tradition: Graphing interobserver agreement data

Remedial and Special Education

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-77

  Artman, Kathleen ^a   Wolery, Mark ^b   Yoder, Paul ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

change; innovation; quantitative; research methodology; single participant

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052541257     PISSN: 07419325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741932510381653     Document Type: Article

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