Practice: Discriminating What to Measure Flashcards
Fae is three years old and attends preschool for three hours on Mondays and Wednesday and for two hours on Tuesday and Thursday. Following a thorough assessment, it has been decided that teaching Fae to request will be a priority for her family and the rest of her team. So that she doesn’t become prompt dependent on the question, “What do you want?”, the team will avoid asking that question and instead use other types of prompts. For instance, when Fae is indicating that she wants something by pointing at it, her teachers will say, “Say ‘cup.’”
Which of the following TWO choices would likely be the most helpful ways to measure if the planned intervention is truly helping Fae?
Collect data on each request, indicating whether or not any prompt occurred. From these data, calculate a percentage of unprompted requests.
Only count the unprompted requests across each school day, noting when data collection started and stopped. From these data, calculate a rate per hour of unprompted requests.
Following a thorough assessment, it has been decided that teaching Antonio to answer the question, “What do you want?” will be a priority for his family and the rest of his team. When Antonio is selecting reinforcers, he will be asked, “What do you want?” or a similar question and five preferred items will be placed on the table. Antonio will hand an adult a PECS icon and then take the corresponding item.
Which of the following would likely be the most helpful way to measure if the planned intervention is truly helping Antonio?
Every time Antonio is asked, “What do you want?”, the teacher makes a tally mark if Antonio handed an icon that corresponds to the item he then took. From these data, a frequency of requesting with icons is graphed for each day
A BCBA just read an article on the importance of diversifying praise statements. The BCBA has decided to implement a Praise Statement Diversification protocol during discrete trial training with staff members. The protocol states that staff members cannot repeat the same praise statement until at least two different praise statements have been emitted. You, the BCBA, need to develop a measurement system to evaluate staff performance on this protocol. Which of the following is likely to be useful?
Use total observation and count the instances the therapist meets the praise criteria. Graph the number of correct praise statements.
Observe using whole interval measurement with five-minute intervals. Score a plus if the staff member did not repeat any praise statements that were the same as the last two praise statements. Score a zero if they did not. Graph the percentage of intervals with diversified praise.
Every time the teacher praises, score a tally. Graph the frequency of praise statements across each school day.
Every time the teacher praises, score a plus if the praise statement is different than the last two statements. Score a minus if it is not. Graph the percentage of diversified praise statements, as well as the total number of praise statements across a one-hour observation.
Every time the teacher praises, score a plus if the praise statement is different than the last two statements. Score a minus if it is not. Graph the percentage of diversified praise statements, as well as the total number of praise statements across a one-hour observation.
You are a behavior analyst hired by a medical school to evaluate the quality of their 90-minute Zoom classes. Specifically, the medical school administration is interested in the number of missed student hand raises by the professor. How would you develop a measurement system to evaluate this potential issue?
(Select all that apply)
Count the number of hands raised that were missed. Graph the number of missed raised hands across each 90-minute course.
Count the number of raised hands that were recognized, as well as the number of hands raised that were not. Graph the percentage of hands raised that were responded to.
Use momentary time-sampling at ten-minute intervals and graph the percentage of intervals in which all questions were answered.
Count the number of hands raised that were missed. Graph the number of missed raised hands across each 90-minute course.
Count the number of raised hands that were recognized, as well as the number of hands raised that were not. Graph the percentage of hands raised that were responded to.
You are a behavior analyst, and a hospital hired you to evaluate the twelve nursing stations within their facility. The hospital administration is interested in knowing at what fidelity are the nurses following or are able to follow the policy of having a minimum of one nurse at each nursing station at all times. You have some health care experience, so you know that each day at a hospital can differ from the previous day. Which of the following would help you to answer this question?
(Select all that apply)
Across one-hour observations, you will count the number of times nurses are at a station until you have collected twelve hours of data. You will graph the rate of staffed nursing stations per hour.
Use momentary time sampling at five-minute intervals, walking between the stations in a prescribed order three times in a day for one week. Each day you will arrive at the hospital at a different time of day and change the order in which you walk through the stations. You will graph the percentage of intervals in which a station was staffed by a nurse. The data seem fairly similar, so you graph the percentage of intervals in which a nurse was present at a station for a total of one graph.
You will observe the first and second nursing station on Monday, the third and fourth on Tuesday, and so on until you have 1.5 hours of whole interval data for each nursing station. You will then present these data on a bar graph.
Use momentary time sampling at five-minute intervals, walking between the stations in a prescribed order three times in a day for one week. Each day you will arrive at the hospital at a different time of day and change the order in which you walk through the stations. You notice that some stations always have someone at the station, while others do not. Therefore, you will graph the percentage of intervals in which a nurse was present at each station for a total of twelve graphs.
Use momentary time sampling at five-minute intervals, walking between the stations in a prescribed order three times in a day for one week. Each day you will arrive at the hospital at a different time of day and change the order in which you walk through the stations. You will graph the percentage of intervals in which a station was staffed by a nurse. The data seem fairly similar, so you graph the percentage of intervals in which a nurse was present at a station for a total of one graph.
Use momentary time sampling at five-minute intervals, walking between the stations in a prescribed order three times in a day for one week. Each day you will arrive at the hospital at a different time of day and change the order in which you walk through the stations. You notice that some stations always have someone at the station, while others do not. Therefore, you will graph the percentage of intervals in which a nurse was present at each station for a total of twelve graphs.
The owner of Thunder Nifflin Data Entry Company reached out to you, a behavior analyst, to do an assessment. The owner thinks there is a problem with people standing around and talking at the water cooler instead of working at their desks. Which ONE of the following possibilities is most likely to yield helpful data?
You design a momentary time-sampling procedure with 10-second intervals. At the end of the first interval, you score whether the first person on your list is working at their desk. You then rotate through all of the people on your list for one hour per day for one week. You then graph the percentage of intervals in which the observed person was at their desk.
You randomly select three people and measure the total duration of time that they spend at the water cooler.
You count the number of people at the water cooler every fifteen minutes.
You design a momentary time-sampling procedure with 10-second intervals. At the end of the first interval, you score whether the first person on your list is working at their desk. You then rotate through all of the people on your list for one hour per day for one week. You then graph the percentage of intervals in which the observed person was at their desk.
The principal of a middle school has contacted you because he has been getting reports that the teacher in one classroom serving individuals with intellectual disabilities is often talking to other adults in and out of their classroom instead of interacting with the students. Indeed, every time that he visits the classroom, this is what he observes. He hires you to provide training on the importance of engaging with your students and to come up with some strategies to help the teacher improve. After providing this training, you let the teacher know that you will continue collecting the same data that you started collecting before training. Of the following, which data system would yield helpful data?
Turning a timer on when the teacher is engaged with the students and turning it off when the teacher is not engaged. By notating the time you started and stopped collecting data, you can then calculate the percentage of time that the teacher was engaged with the students.
Using whole interval recording in two-minute increments. You will graph the percentage of intervals in which the teacher was engaged with the students.
A behavior analyst has been asked to assess how often a particular staff member arrives late to work. Which of the following methods is likely to yield helpful information about this behavior?
(Select all that apply)
You will collect one-minute, whole interval data each morning until the staff member arrives. You will graph the number of intervals that the staff member wasn’t yet present.
You will ask the staff member how many days they were late last week and then graph that number.
You will count the number of times that the staff member arrived at least one minute late. Then, you will graph the percentage of late arrivals for each week
There is a system for employees to electronically clock in, so you will record the latency between when the staff member was supposed to start working and when they actually arrived. You will graph the minutes late each day.
You will count the number of times that the staff member arrived at least one minute late. Then, you will graph the percentage of late arrivals for each week
There is a system for employees to electronically clock in, so you will record the latency between when the staff member was supposed to start working and when they actually arrived. You will graph the minutes late each day.
Your director is upset because a caregiver has reported that you take days to respond to their phone calls. You thought that you had been calling back in a timely fashion. What would be the BEST way to determine this?
You give yourself a plus every time that you call the caregiver back in five minutes and a minus if it took longer than that. You calculate a percentage of calls that were returned within five minutes.
You look at the call log on your phone to write down the time the caregiver has called and then the time that you responded. Calculate the minutes during work hours that you took to respond. After you have done this, you calculate the average time it takes you to respond and report this along with the range of response time to your boss.
You use partial-interval recording with each day being one interval. If you always called back within an hour, your score a plus for the day. You calculate a percentage of days each week that you responded to phone calls quickly.
You look at the call log on your phone to write down the time the caregiver has called and then the time that you responded. Calculate the minutes during work hours that you took to respond. After you have done this, you calculate the average time it takes you to respond and report this along with the range of response time to your boss.
You are a BCBA working for a supportive living system that serves adults with intellectual disabilities. You receive a strongly worded message from the campus’s nurse that your client who has severe diabetes is not showing up or showing up very late to have their glucose checked. It is the RBT’s job to accompany the client to the nurse at four appointed times each day. Which of the following TWO options would best measure this problem?
Provide the nurse with a data sheet where they can record the time the client is supposed to arrive and the time the client actually arrived. Graph the average minutes that the client is arriving late each day.
Provide the nurse with a data sheet where they will score a plus for each on-time visit and a minus for each time the client is more than 15 minutes late. Graph the percentage of on-time visits.
