Special Education Data Collection Apps
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A multi-mode data collection App made to assist professionals and students in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), special education, school psychology, and clinical psychology, as well as researchers conducting observational studies. The special needs population has always had a history of data collection systems. The advent of apps has made it much more manageable for educators, parents, and therapists to monitor progress. The developers of apps for special needs recognized the necessity of incorporating these components into their apps from the start. A goal tracking app for students with special needs. Every student enrolled in a special education program in the U.S. Data collection practices vary from school to school. Collecting data on the IEP goals.(even and especially the ones you didn't even write) can be annoying, difficult, a lot of work, is just what us special education teachers gotta do. I recently had a question about what kinds of forms I keep on my clipboards so I snapped a couple of pictures. Mostly, I have data sheets to collect data on IEP goals.
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Description
THIS APPLICATION REQUIRES AN IEPPAL SUBSCRIPTION.
IEPPal is an iPad based data collection tool that enables Special Education Professionals of ALL DISCIPLINES from Speech and Language to OTs to Autism and even General Ed to capture observed student event data. Designed around an emerging touch screen handheld market, IEPPal’s primary aim is to allow for data to be collected easily during structured sit down sessions or in ad-hoc field environments. The goal is to allow an educator to quickly assemble usable statistical data for periodic student progress reporting. IEPPal eliminates the hassle of data sheets and score logs that are used in today’s world that must be hand tallied to produce progress reporting.
With IEPPal, you may chart progress towards defined goals and objectives for each student with simple touch based prompts on your device. Once completed, your event logs are synchronized with a central data storage area, and summarized progress reports and graphs are just a few mouse clicks away. Gone are the days of fumbling with folders full of log sheets and calculators for each student just to calculate progress. Your time can be utilized assessing the results, not formulating them.
If you are an special educator with an average case load, IEPPal will save you literally hundreds of hours per year by relieving the time required to tabulate your data for semi-annual and quarterly reporting. This translates into instant financial savings for your organization, but more importantly, it frees up your most valuable asset – YOUR TIME!
What’s New
Listing of quick notes to show long notes.
Removed showing last three past score, so as to improve sync speed
Special Education Data Collection Forms
Company with integrity
Although I have not tried the trial version yet, I can tell you that I am most impressed with this company. I had originally had written a not too flattering review of a test version that was inadvertently released on iTunes. The impression I got was that this was not a secure app for student data. I was wrong. It was only a test run with a fictitious SLP and students. Inresonse to my comments, I received a response from the CEO of the company regarding an email I had also sent. In addition, he referenced my review that I posted. How often does that happen!
Debbie K.
Well actually..
The layout is an option, if you do not like the child like background you can change it to a more plain background. The product was originally created for>For the cost of about 3 continuing education units, I can have a product I can customize that will give me secure progress documentation, through a fast and efficient method, without carrying around files and folders, and will help me analyze all the results of my therapy sessions for an entire year..as well as personal hands-on help just for the asking. Since this purchase comes out of my pocket, I carefully weighed the cost against the time it would save me and decided it was worth it. Be sure to go to the website, download the start-up manual, and take the free trial before you judge the product. It has a lot! And the developers have plans to add much more.
Information
Special Education Data Collection Sheets
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPad.
Supports
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
Data collection is a regular activity in the special education classroom. It requires assessing the student’s success on individual items in his or her goals on a regular basis, usually at least once a week.
When a special education teacher creates the IEP goals, he or she should also create data sheets to record the student’s progress on individual goals, recording the number of correct responses as a percent of total responses.
Create Measurable Goals
When IEP's are written, it is important that goals are written in a way that they are measurable .. that the IEP specifically names the sort of data and the sort of change that should be seen in a student's behavior or academic performance. If it is a percent of probes completed independently, then data can be collected to provide evidence of how many tasks the child completed without prompting or supports. If the goal is measuring skills in a particular math operation, say addition, then a goal can be written to indicate a percent of probes or problems the student completes correctly. This is often known as an accuracy goal since it is based on the percent of correct responses.
Some school districts require that special educators record their progress monitoring on computer templates the district provides, and store them on shared computer drives where the building principal or the special education supervisor can check to be sure data are being kept. Unfortunately, as Marshall McLuhan wrote in the Medium is the Message, too often the medium, or in this case, the computer program shapes the sorts of data that are collected, which may actually create meaningless data which fits the program but not the IEP Goal or the behavior.
Types of Data Collection
Different kinds of data measurement are important for different kinds of goals.
Trial by Trial: This measures the percent of correct trials against the total number of trials. This is used for discrete trials.
Duration: Duration measures the lengths of behaviors, often paired with interventions to reduce undesirable behaviors, such as tantrums or out of seat behavior. Interval data collection is one means to measure duration, creating data that reflects either percent of intervals or percent of complete intervals.
Frequency: This is a simple measure that notes the frequency of either wanted or unwanted behaviors. These are usually described in an operational way so they can be identified by a neutral observer.
Thorough data collection is an essential way of showing whether a student is or is not making progress on goals. It also documents how and when the instruction is being delivered to the child. If a teacher fails to keep good data, it makes the teacher and the district vulnerable to due process.