Sentence examples for choices were coded from inspiring English sources
Alternative choices were coded for comments that either clearly demonstrated knowledge of other options for exercise clothing or no expression in awareness of alternative clothing options.
A correct choice was coded only if the dog touched the correct board first and pulled it out first.
Here each choice was coded as 1 if the respondent chose the plan on the left or 0 if they choose the plan on the right.
In six of the patient vignettes, there was only one correct answer, and in four cases there was one best choice for action (coded as two points), while the second best choice was coded as one point.
The statements that the patients gave when motivating their choice of domains were coded into themes.
Both multiple-choice and free-response items were coded; however, multiple-choice items were used exclusively for the correlation analysis between the Bloom's cognitive level and the item difficulty, as performance data from the free-response questions was not always readily available.
Items related to Domains (3 - 11) used a six-point response format ranging from 'strongly agree' to 'strongly disagree' with a choice of "not applicable", and were coded from 6 to 1 and 0 respectively.
Both conservation tillage answer choices (no-till and minimum-till) were coded "1".
However, this strategy was used only rarely by the dogs in the present study (note that, following our criterion, these trials were coded as incorrect choices, even though the dogs obtained the reward).
The following quotes were coded as feeling freedom in choice and illustrate the different perspectives.
