Deck 3: Data Collection

Question 1

Vision and hearing data are important because

A) Younger students in particular may not realize they have a vision or hearing issue
B) Parents must have their children examined and inform the school
C) Can only be obtained through trained physicians and not school nurses
D) Students who are blind and deaf need to go to separate classes designed just for them

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Data concerning student absences

A) May suggest there is something going on in the student's home life
B) May suggest a student does not like or is afraid to be in school
C) May suggest a student is avoiding or escaping particular days or events
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Anecdotal records, kept by teachers, can be very useful in

A) Identifying teachers who are not doing a good job at teaching
B) Identifying antecedents and consequences of a student's behavior
C) Giving administrators the best information possible about student absences
D) Ensuring no one is gathering data about a student without parental consent

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Counting how often a student makes disruptive comments is an example of

A) Latency recording
B) Duration recording
C) Frequency recording
D) ABC recording

Question 5

Latency recording involves measuring

A) How long a student is engaged in a behavior
B) When a student makes disruptive comments
C) Where a student is misbehaving
D) None of the above

Question 6

Duration recording involves measuring

A) How long a student is engaged in a behavior
B) When a student makes disruptive comments
C) Where a student is misbehaving
D) None of the above

Question 7

Cultural context is important because

A) What school personnel perceive as inappropriate behavior may be typical for that student
B) Students must learn the school culture and not their ethnic culture
C) Students must be allowed to engage in any behavior that is their cultural norm
D) None of the above

Question 8

Behavior scales can be useful to

A) Identify students who need more frequent punishment
B) Help students understand which behaviors carry more "weight" in school
C) Can be shared among students to find out who likes who
D) Identify students who may be engaging in some behaviors more frequently than other students

Question 9

A teacher records how long it takes a student to get to work on writing in her journal after being given directions. This is an example of

A) Frequency recording
B) Anecdotal recording
C) Latency recording
D) Duration recording

Question 10

A teacher wants to know if her own behavior might be affecting a student's inappropriate attention-seeking behavior. She asks a colleague to come in and observe her and the student during class. This would most likely involve the colleague using

A) Frequency recording
B) Anecdotal recording
C) Latency recording
D) Duration recording

Question 11

Compare and contrast what school-wide methods of data collection and individual methods of data collection offer a team of educators working with a student.

Question 12

Discuss when and why anecdotal recording is useful.