Exam 9: Assessment of Behavior

Discuss three issues that teachers should consider when administering questionnaires.

Lists of academic or behavioral skills that the respondent completes by checking the appropriate responses.

What is a manifestation determination and why would a student need one?

What is the difference between a functional behavioral assessment and a functional behavior analysis?

Mark and Joey are in the same math class.Mark was looking through his materials in his desk and was not attending to the work assigned by the teacher.Joey was working on his math class assignment and Mark began talking to Joey.Joey was distracted and was not able to redirect himself back to the task.The teacher reprimanded Joey.Mark laughed.Identify the ABCs of Joey and Mark's behavior.

When the total learning environment is assessed to determine if there are factors that contribute to the behavior,it is called ecological assessment.

IDEA requires the use of positive behavior supports for students at the school-wide level only.

These assessments are used to analyze a student's feelings by what the student projects into the story card or other stimulus.

Checklists,questionnaires,and parent interviews are techniques that require assessment personnel to conduct direction observation of behavior.

Judy,a young preschooler,has temper tantrums.With interventions,the tantrums continue but do not seem to be as intense or long.In order to determine if Judy's tantrums are truly decreasing in length,the teacher should use

Which of the following methods of data collection would be most useful in determining antecedents?

These events make a consequence more attractive.

An event that occurs prior to a target behavior but not in the same exact environment as the target behavior is known as which of the following?

What are the characteristics that students may demonstrate in order to be found eligible under the category of emotional disturbance?

Latency recording measures the amount of time elapsed between the specific stimulus and the actual response.

Which of the following is not a projective assessment?

The school psychologist completes an observation of Jean and determines that she engages in an off-task behavior,on average,every six minutes,which is recorded as

When a child has been sent from the classroom for misbehavior and the child feels relief,the function of the target behavior is escape.

Linda has difficulty with talking out in class at inappropriate times.In order to determine if this behavior occurs more during a specific time of day,the teacher decides to note each occurrence.Linda's behavior is being observed and recorded using which of the following methods?

Drawing tests assess a student's feelings about what they perceive is happening in a picture.