Beyond Time Out - Measurement

Sally is recording a student’s behavior. She starts the stopwatch when the student begins screaming and stops the stopwatch when the student stops screaming. What type of measurement procedure is she using? ____________________

• Latency

• Continuous

• Duration

• IRT

Paul wants a quick and easy way to record 5 different students’ task engagement. What type of measurement procedure should he use? ____________________

• Partial Interval Recording

• Permanent Product Recording

• Momentary Time Sampling

• Discontinuous Measurement Procedure or Interval Procedure

Tony reported his data collection as a percentage of intervals with occurrence. What type of data collection is he using? ____________________

• Frequency

• Rate

• Latency

• Discontinuous Measurement Procedure or Interval Procedure

A student of Mary’s takes a very long time to start getting dressed after instruction. What type of data collection would be appropriate? _____________________

• Latency

• Whole Interval Recording

• Permanent Product Recording

• Duration

Tom does not have a lot of time to collect data on a student’s social engagement during play. What type of measurement should he use? _______________________

• Partial Interval Recording

• Momentary Time Sampling

• Whole Interval Recording

• Permanent Product Recording

Harry wants to record how many times his student hits. He should use a

                                         count and report the data as                                                .

• IRT, Partial Interval Recording

• Frequency, Rate

• Rate, Permanent Product Recording

An interval recording procedure that overestimates behavior is _______________

• Momentary Time Sampling

• Partial Interval Recording

• Whole Interval Recording

• Discontinuous Measurement Procedure or Interval Procedure

____________________ measurement is the most valid and preferred type of data collection.

• Frequency

• Rate

• Continuous

Recording the number of pieces of clothing a student folded is called _____________________

• Whole Interval Recording

• Permanent Product Recording

• Partial Interval Recording

• Duration

Paul starts a stopwatch when a behavior ends and stops the stopwatch when the next behavior begins. This is called ______________________

• Discontinuous Measurement Procedure or Interval Procedure

• IRT

• Partial Interval Recording

• Whole Interval Recording