HU Psychology Inter Rater Reliability Increment Discussion

Inter-Rater Reliability Reliability is very important to consider in research studies. There are  many different types of reliability and one type is called inter-rater  reliability. Inter-rater reliability studies are often conducted when  you have more than one person who will be evaluating and scoring data.  If inter-rater reliability is high, then different people are recording  approximately the same values for the behavior they are evaluating. Many of you are familiar with Albert Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment in  1961. Bandura was a proponent of the social learning theory. In his  experiment, he attempted to determine if children would model aggressive  behavior.Let’s say you are planning to conduct a modern-day social learning study  and plan to record and rate the aggressive interactions after children  have watched acts of violence on television. The potential acts of  aggression will be rated from video tapes of the children as they play  with a life-sized, blow-up toy. Before you conduct your study, you must  train your four research assistants to make sure that they are  identifying the same behaviors and end up with the same scores.Create a report with a  detailed description explaining how to train the assistants so that they  have high inter-rater reliability. Search the South University Online  Library to find some inter-rater reliability studies and see if you can  get any ideas. Make sure you operationalize aggression before you start  to explain your training plan. Be specific about what your research  assistants should do to increase the similarity of their rating scores.  Submit the reliability training plan for your research assistants.