Direct Assessment Flashcards
What do direct assessments do?
Provide measurable
and validated information about the learner’s behavior.
What are two principal methods of direct assessment?
Standardized tests and observations are two principal methods of
direct assessment.
What is a standardized test?
the same questions and tasks are presented using specified procedures and the
same scoring criteria are applied.
What is norm referenced assessment?
During the test’s development it was administered to a large sample of people selected to represent the population for whom the test is designed.
Why aren’t standardized tests conducive to behavioral assessment?
Not conducive to behavioral assessment because the results
cannot be translated directly into target behaviors for instruction or treatment.
What are the two types of assessments that help target behaviors to change?
ractitioners often use criterion-referenced and curriculum-based assessments to help target behaviors to change.
What does a CRA do?
Measures a child’s
skill performance across recognized and commonly accepted
“developmental milestones.”
What does a curriculum-based assessment do?
The data that are obtained bear uniquely on the daily or weekly tasks the learner performs in response to planned lessons.
What are direct observations?
Direct and repeated observations of the client’s behavior in the
natural environment are useful for determining behaviors to
assess and ultimately to select as a target behavior.
What are ways to get past the limits of direct observation?
Expanding the direct observations to include a wider range of settings, persons, or behaviors.
What is ABC or anecdotal recording?
the
observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account
of all behaviors of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the
client’s natural environment (Cooper, 1981)
What does ABC do?
Anecdotal observation yields an overall description of a
client’s behavior patterns
