During the iterative on-site observer training sessions, a pen-and-paper version of the tool was used to record answers.
Due to the lack of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) coverage over a large part of the volcano, the ability to communicate between on-site observers and the observatory is extremely limited, and messages need –literally – to be carried back by hand resulting in delivery delays for vent location if observers are out of range.
Parks were pre-identified using a GIS software and then verified and audited on-site by observers.
On the five subsequent training days, observers and trainers began running independent on-site test observations in various non-study parks in the Montreal area.
This evaluation was performed on-site by an observer (a specialist clinical psychologist that was formally qualified as a supervisor of cognitive therapy by the Norwegian Association for Cognitive Therapy).
Following each on-site training session, observers met with the trainers in the park and later at the research centre to compare answers.
Neighborhood audits, or systematic social observations, are completed in person and on site by trained observers (e.g., inter alia Sampson and Raudenbush [1999]; Day et al. [2006]; Clifton et al. [2007]; Brownson et al. [2004]).
However, only 64%%, of the sample was pre-identified, meaning that observers, using on-site methods, newly identified over one third of the parks evaluated.
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We set up a specific methodology that involved having observers on site for an entire week in each of the eight centres comprising our sample for each country (four with and four without NGO support) to time and then evaluate staff workload.
This research would need support from practices for observers to remain on-site during the selection process.
