The Observation and Recording of Behavior

Trow (1957) makes a point of the importance of utilizing those observational techniques which seem most appropriate to the kind of information to be gathered. To accomplish this task social scientists in several disciplines have explored the use of a variety of techniques. These techniques include both participant and nonparticipant observers utilizing various mechanical observing and recording procedures. Most of the reported educational research utilizing observational techniques was of a nonparticipant variety. Those studies which have used mechanical aids to observation have been limited primarily to audiotape and videotape recording.

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