Data Collection for Practitioners
Data collection is an effective way for practitioners to keep track of a student's progress in learning a new activity. It can also provide evidence for which methods of instruction are most effective in helping an individual to make progress. Data should first be taken at baseline, before the videos are presented to the individual, in order to best measure the correlation between video use and performance.
The following is an example of a spreadsheet that can be utilized to keep track of an individual's progress.
The following is an example of a spreadsheet that can be utilized to keep track of an individual's progress.
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Personalizing your data collection spreadsheet:
You will need to break down the activity into individual steps, a process called "task analysis." In the Task Analysis column, record each step required to complete the activity. For example, the task analysis steps for the activity of washing one's hands might be the following:
Each time the individual performs the activity, record the date performed. For each step, record the level of assistance the individual required to complete the task in the corresponding row and column. The following abbreviations may be used to indicate the type of assistance required:
I: Independent
G/V: Gestural or visual assistance
V: Verbal assistance
LP: Light physical assistance
FP: Full physical assistance
- Turn on water
- Wet hands
- Get soap
- Rub together palms of hands
- Rub soap on the back of one hand
- Rub soap on the back of the other hand
- Rinse hands
- Turn off water
- Get paper towel
- Dry palm of one hand
- Dry palm of other hand
- Dry back of one hand
- Dry back of other hand
- Throw out paper towel
Each time the individual performs the activity, record the date performed. For each step, record the level of assistance the individual required to complete the task in the corresponding row and column. The following abbreviations may be used to indicate the type of assistance required:
I: Independent
G/V: Gestural or visual assistance
V: Verbal assistance
LP: Light physical assistance
FP: Full physical assistance