observation session

collocation in English

meaningsofobservationandsession

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observation
noun
uk
/ˌɒb.zəˈveɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌɑːb.zɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
the act of observing something ...
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session
noun
uk
/ˈseʃ.ən/
us
/ˈseʃ.ən/
a formal meeting or series of meetings of an organization such as a parliament or a court ...
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(Definition ofobservationandsessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobservation session

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To reduce the observer effect, the researcher visited the participants' homes before theobservationsessionand interacted with all the family members.
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Each child was offered a few objects (2-3) from this set during his/herobservationsession.
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Since seed regurgitation by hornbills usually continued for 10-20 min, the median time was reported for eachobservationsession.
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To analyse the potential cleptoparasitic pressure the birds exerted on swarms, we calculated the per-minute average number of birds present during eachobservationsession.
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Accordingly, the pre-observation interview was undertaken during the late afternoon prior to theobservationsessionthe following day, while the post-observation interview took place immediately after the morning's visits.
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Indeed, at eachobservationsession, complex sentences accounted for only 6 % of the caregivers' total speech, and most occurred while the parents were reading books to their children.
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Seven months following the finalobservationsession, a single follow-up session was conducted.
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Longer periods of observation with the nurses were ruled out because it was considered that anobservationsessiontogether with intensive questioning already constituted a significant burden on practitioners.
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Approximately once monthly, there was anobservationsessionsimilar in every way to the others except that (1) it included novel toys and (2) it involved no gesture models.
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Typically, the undergraduates experience only two observation sessions of between two and four hours.
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Detailed and descriptive field notes were recorded during the observation sessions whenever possible and elaborated afterwards.
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In the third month of the study, he did not communicate at all during the observation sessions.
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Even more interesting, children used supplementary gesture+speech combinations to convey increasingly complex ideas over the three observation sessions.
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A central concern at this exploratory stage was how to record data during the course of the observation sessions.
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Observation sessions were undertaken individually and there was no time limit applied.
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Three pre-pilot interview and observation sessions were carried out with comparable care couples in a different location.
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It was clear that interview and observation sessions needed to be arranged as close together as possible in order to maximize recall.
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Stability of individual differences in child language was also assessed across observation sessions.
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As such, she may not have demonstrated the extent of her word knowledge during the observation sessions.
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