Evaluation

Duration recording documents how long a student engages in a specified behavior. This type of data collection is appropriate for behaviors that have a distinct beginning and ending.

Requirements pertaining to referrals for initial evaluation and best practice procedures for receiving referrals for an initial evaluation.

Interval recording involves observing whether a behavior occurs or does not occur during specified time periods and is useful for high-rate behaviors that are difficult to count and/or do not have a clear beginning or end.

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses a trial-by-trial data collection form. This form is intended for use by teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers collecting data for student Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and baseline data to determine a need for new/updated IEP goals or behavior intervention.

Information for Parents About the Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authority (LIDDA)

Trial-by-trial data collection is used often for academic tasks. Record data for each opportunity, or trial, the student is given. The data may be reported in trials or in percentages, depending on how the goal is written.

Examination of regulations related to reevaluations, the process for conducting a REED, and best practices of a comprehensive reevaluation.