Data Collection Basics
This term refers to information gathered about behavior to track progress and guide treatment decisions.
What is data?
Trial sheets are most commonly used during this type of structured teaching.
What is Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?
This data collection method counts how many times a behavior occurs.
What is event recording?
Narrative notes should describe behavior in this way: observable and measurable.
What is objective language?
This occurs when someone guesses, fabricates, or copies data instead of recording it accurately.
What is data falsification?
This is the process of systematically recording behavior during a session.
What is data collection?
This is recorded on trial sheets to show how much help the client needed.
What are prompt levels?
Event recording works best for behaviors with a clear beginning and this.
What is an end?
Saying “The client was lazy” would be considered this type of writing.
What is subjective language?
This shows the exact time data was entered.
What is time-stamping?
These two types of data include numbers and descriptive observations.
What are quantitative and qualitative data?
This part of a trial tells the learner what to do.
What is the SD (discriminative stimulus)?
Aggression occurring 5 times during a session would be tracked using this method.
What is event recording?
Narrative notes should match the numbers recorded on this.
What are data sheets?
If digital systems fail, this type of data collection method can be used as a backup.
What is paper data collection?
This is why accurate data collection is important for treatment planning.
What is guiding treatment decisions?
One limitation of trial sheets is that teaching may become this if flexibility is lost.
What is robotic or overly structured?
These three components make up ABC data.
What are Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence?
Narrative notes help supervisors understand what happened during this.
What is the session?
If the data is wrong, this will also be wrong.
What are treatment decisions?