Our analysis revealed there are three different classes of quantitative data collected to support the education of individuals with intensive needs: instructional data, social data and behavior data. Instructional data represented students' measurable performance on academic or other structured tasks (e.g. life skills). The analysis identified a wide variety of scales used to capture student performance on instructional tasks:

• Correct/Incorrect used for Verbal Behavior "errorless trial" data collection, as well as in speech, occupational and music therapy when the therapist wants to record how a student responded the first time a request was made of them (e.g. Sundberg & Partington 1998, therapist observation):

• ABA Trial measures correct, correct but prompted, incorrect, incorrect but prompted and non-response (e.g. Lovaas & Smith 1988, Calouri & Hamblen 1996). Usually used in discrete trial applied behavior analysis therapy to record multiple requests for a single educational target (5 trials or 10 trials).  See Create New Goals to see how to set the number of trials appearing on your instructional data entry form:

• Non-verbal Prompt is used in Applied Behavior Analysis programs in occupational and music therapy to record the types of physical or visual prompts necessary to get a student to perform a specific action (Calouri & Hamblen 1996, Frost & Bondy 1994, and therapist observation).  The long version (shown below) records 10 different prompt levels, short includes 4 prompt levels plus independent and and non-response.:

• Verbal Prompt is used in Applied Behavior Analysis programs in speech therapy to record the types of verbal or visual prompts necessary to get a student to say a word or sound sequence (Calouri & Hamblen 1996 and therapist observation):

• Likert scale (5 or 7 max) is used to measure the level of proficiency a student exhibits when performing a specific task  (teacher data collection practices).

• Likert scale (5 or 7 prompt) is used to allow a teacher to define a custom scale to take data with.
  
• The Likert 5 Prompt scale has "No Prompt" and "Full Prompt" as the maximum and minimum anchors for the scale. 
  
• The Likert 7 Prompt scale has "No Prompt" and "Non Response" as the maximum and minimum anchors for the scale.
• For both scales the teacher may enter the exact values for each response type in the "Prompts" field in the objective definition.
• The defined scale will appear below the data entry page so all users understand exactly how the scale is defined:
  

• Time on task (minutes or seconds) is used to measure a variety of IEP goal behaviors from amount of time spent reading, time spent in the community or time the student was able to spend sitting in group or at the table (Oregon Goal bank, teacher data collection practices).

• Count or Score allows a teacher to enter a score on a standardized test the student takes multiple times as a part of curriculum based measurement (Deno 2003, Stecker & Fuchs 2000):

• Tally is used to count the number of time a behavior occurs during a specified observation time often used when examining the effect of social stories (Scattoneet. al. 2002, Brownell 2002):