Glossary
Monitoring of behavior by others without feedback
What is monitoring of behavior by others without feedback?
Monitoring of behavior by others without feedback means observing or recording someone's behavior, with their knowledge, as part of an effort to change it, without giving them performance feedback.
How the technique is defined
Observation solely to collect research data does not meet this behavior-change-technique definition.
Illustrative example
A safety program tells staff that an observer will record equipment-check completion as part of the improvement program, without reporting individual results back to them.
Evidence and limits
The original BCT Taxonomy v1 definitions identify this as technique 2.1. The observer’s presence is part of the intervention. Whether it improves equipment checks is something the program must measure.