Definitions
The time between the instruction/prompt and a child’s response.
Latency
A teacher notes each time a student shouts an answer out without raising their hand first during a 30-minute lesson and logs the number of occurrences.
Event Recording
Data taken on a behavior before introducing an intervention
Baseline
A student who typically calls out in class is given a reprimand every time they call out.
Independent Variable
The number of times a behavior occurs.
Frequency
A teacher asks a student to put their pencil down. The student takes 5 seconds to put the pencil down. The teacher logs the time it took them to put the pencil down.
Latency
what you introduce, such as a teaching strategy or reinforcement system, to change behavior.
Intervention
A student is leaving the designated instructional area without permission from an adult.
Dependent Variable
A way to count how many times a specific behavior happens. It’s useful for behaviors that have a clear beginning and end.
Event Recording
A student ripped up their math paper on 4 out of 5 days this week.
Frequency
A behavior a student has that we want to change with the help of skills that will help to change the behavior.
Dependent Variable
After collecting baseline data on off-task behavior, a teacher starts a token reward system for staying seated and working quietly.
Intervention
A form of measurement used to measure the length of and how often a behavior occurs by noting if a behavior occurs during timed intervals.
A completed writing assessment shows that a student is proficient in writing.
Permanent Product
The skills that can change depending on the teacher watching the student’s behavior to be able to change the behavior happening.
Independent Variable
Over several days, a teacher records how often a student calls out without raising their hand before introducing a classroom token system.
Baseline data
A way to record and measure the tangible results a child’s behavior has on the environment AFTER the behavior has occurred.
Permanent Product
An observer watches a student for 20 minutes. Every 2 minutes they note if the student is tapping their pencil rapidly on the desk at all during the 2 minute interval. The student exhibited this behavior in 7 out of 10 intervals.
Interval Recording