ABC Charts and Surrogate Parents Pretest

How can an ABC chart be used to track or monitor behavior?

• By allowing you to document which activities, antecedents, behaviors, and consequences are causing problems for a student in order to provide appropriate interventions and track their results.

• By allowing you to compare a student to other students in a group.

• By giving you strategies to address problem behaviors.

What is an antecedent?

• what happens as a result of a target behavior

• what happens before a target behavior

• a target behavior

Which of the following behaviors is a consequence?

• refusal

• cursing

• behavior ignored

Which is an antecedent?

• cursing

• refusing a directive

• being given instruction

When could you use an ABC chart for a student? (Check all that apply)

• when their parent asks how they're doing

• when you think you need to ask a behavior specialist for help

• when you want to know more about a student's behavior and have good data

TRUE or FALSE: A DSS employee is usually the surrogate parent in an IEP meeting for a student whose parents do not have custody.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Why can a therapeutic foster parent usually NOT act as a surrogate parent in an IEP meeting?

• they work for the state

• they do not have custody

• they cannot receive the required training

• it is a conflict of interest