Operational Definitions must be? ✔✔Clear, concise, completely, measurable, observable, onset,
offset
Direct Assessments ✔✔Gathering information by observing the client in the field/environment
Indirect Assessments ✔✔Gathering information on client through surveys and interviews of
parents, teachers etc
Frequency ✔✔taking the count for a behavior and relating it back to the observation window
Duration ✔✔the time during which a behavior occured
Partial Interval Recording ✔✔dividing observation period into smaller intervals and then
recording whether the behavior occurred at ANY TIME during that interval
Whole Interval Recording ✔✔dividing observation period into smaller intervals and then record
whether the behavior occurred during the ENTIRE INTERVAL
, Continous measurement procedures ✔✔Frequency
Discontinuous Measurements Procedures ✔✔Partial and whole interval recording
Graphing ✔✔most common graph used in ABA is the line graph
X-axis: always some measure of time
Y-axis: always some measure of behavior
Interoberserver Agreement (IOA) ✔✔- involves comparing independent observations from tow
or more people of the same events
- helps us make sure that we're all measuring the same thing in the same way
Person Centered Planning ✔✔used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. focuses
on an individual and that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future.
Identify how traditional models have disempowered individuals with disabilities ✔✔focus on
defects and problem behavior