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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Behav Anal. 2023 Dec 4;57(1):166–183. doi: 10.1002/jaba.1045

TABLE 3.

Interobserver agreement and procedural fidelity across participants for the structured descriptive assessment, functional analysis, and functional communication training

n % M (%) Range (%) SD

Interobserver agreement

SDA 54 94.7
 Sessions with IOA 58.1 29–100 24.1
 IOA 95.9 79–100 6.28
FA 25 96.2
 Sessions with IOA 46.6 27–100 22.9
 IOA 93.8 75–100 6.7
FCT 54 94.7
 Sessions with IOA 44.5 17–100 24.7
 IOA 95 75–100 6.5

Procedural fidelity

SDA 36 63.2
 Sessions with fidelity 45.7 21–100 20.8
 Fidelity 96.7 80–100 6.5
FA 36 63.2
 Sessions with fidelity 39.9 20–100 23.4
 Fidelity 92.1 70–100 8.1
FCT 36 63.2
 Sessions with fidelity 29.3 20–63 9.7
 Fidelity 96.4 70–100 6.6

Note. Mean, range, and SD are representative of the total number of participants for which data were available for each condition. For IOA, that was 54, 25, and 54 participants for the SDA, FA, and FCT conditions, respectively. For procedural fidelity, that was 36 participants for all conditions. The percentage of participants for whom we collected interobserver agreement and procedural-fidelity data are out of the 57 total participants. We calculated total-count IOA. SDA = structured descriptive assessment; FA = functional analysis; FCT = functional communication training; IOA = interobserver agreement.