Reliability between online raters with varying familiarities of a region: Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

To test inter-rater reliability of the online Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) tool between raters with varying familiarities of Phoenix, Arizona.

Methods

The online MAPS tool, based on the MAPS in-field audit tool and scoring system, was used for audits. Sixty route pairs, 141 segment pairs, and 92 crossing pairs in Phoenix were included. Each route, segment or crossing was audited by two independent raters: one rater in Phoenix and the other in San Diego, California, respectively. Item, subscale scores, and total scores reliability analyses were computed using Kappa or intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC).

Results

The route overall score had substantial reliability (ICC: 0.832). Of the route subscale and overall scores, sixteen out

SUBMITTER: Zhu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695890 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature