Continuous Data Collection

Frequency/Rate

• Frequency: The number of times a behavior occurs. Also called a count

• Rate: number of times a behavior occurs in a given time frame

• Countable behaviors

  • discrete: definite stop and start point

  • occur frequently enough to capture in the defined time period

  • do not occur so quickly as to make accurate counting unlikely

Duration

• duration data: data that reports the amount of time that passed between the beginning and ending of a behavioral occurence

• Duration behaviors:

  • behaviors that stop and start rapidly or repeatedly

  • behaviors that related to goals fo increasing os decreasing endurance or persistence

Latency

• latency: amount of time that passes between the stimulus and the initiation of the behavioral response

• collected for behaviors in which the goal is to increase or decrease the amount of time that passes between the stimulus and the response

Inter-response time

• Inter-response time: The amount of time that elapses between iterations of behavior

• Inter-response time behaviors:

  • building behavioral fluency

  • decreasing repetitive behaviors