Question

Do males and females carry their books differently? Design and conduct an observational study to address this question. a. What is your operational definition for "carrying books"? What are the different ways books can be carried and how have you defined them for reliable observations? b. Design your checklist. Is it an action or static checklist, or both? c. Plan your data collection. Will you use behavior sampling? Situation sampling? Event sampling? Will your sampling be done randomly or systematically? Will you make observations for a specific period of time or until you have gathered a certain amount of data? d. Will you be able to assess interobserver reliability? If so, how? Assess your interobserver reliability, if possible.

Answer 1

It is a basic understanding that male and female differ in the way they do things. It is obvious that male and female differ in their style of carrying books. Carrying books is a number of words printed in a paper which is combined in a book which is carried by the people from one place to another. Basically male prefer to carry their books through backpacks and female through a slide or one strap bags and male carry their books in one hand without any cover or a bag and female carry their books in front of the body.

Action checklist can be carried out to see whether specific behavior is present or absent.

Behavior sampling will be used because the result of behavior sampling should be reliable and valid and it has to be done randomly and until a certain amount of data is gathered.

Inter rater reliability can be used if different people give an similar opinion about the behavior, then it is possible to use.