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I’m linking up with the Frenzied SLPs to talk about data collection.  This is a repost from 2013 of how I am collecting data.

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Speech Language Pathologists are trend setters.  We’d been using hashmarks for YEARS before hashtags became so popular.

Hashmarks,
Plus/minuses,
Smiley/frown faces,
Thumbs up/thumbs down
Guesstimators
iPad data collection apps
What’s your data collection style?
Even if you have a favorite method, there’s always the student who you have to constantly change how you are reporting your data because they are going to get upset or argue that their answer was correct.  As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become a little more blunt with my students-they generally know when they didn’t get an answer correct.  
Most of my work experience has been in outpatient pediatrics.  When you are billing insurance companies, you need to show medical necessity and skilled service within your daily documentation.  You can have a lot of hashmarks on your daily note suggesting that you completed a lot of repetitions.  However, the prompts are what constitutes skilled service.  It’s why Johnny doesn’t get better when mom just asks him to say 10 different /r/ words by using a louder voice.
When I started going on home visits, I developed this form.  I type the students information at the top and list the objectives in 1-7.  I made 5 copies of this sheet and stapled it together.   Then I put them in a 3 ring binder under the tab for that student.
When I am typing out the goals, I try to think of which prompts I think my student will need and list those at the bottom.  I  use a rating scale with the higher numbers being more intrusive prompts.  Then within each session, I try to decrease one level of prompting (if I can).
Get your FREE copy HERE.
I’m excited to see how everyone else is collecting data.  You can link up in three easy steps.
  1. Write a post about data collection. Post it on your blog or as a Facebook note.
  2. Link up to any host blog.  Your link will show up on all of the host blogs!
  3. Please visit and comment on the two blogs before you and after you on the linky.

Comments

  3. This is a great linky to give form options! After all, everyone does things a little differently. This will help others find out what works for them!

  5. I LOVE that the prompts are listed on there! Stroke of genius, and it really tells anyone looking at the data A LOT. Thanks for opening my eyes to that!

  6. LOVE that you have put definitions for prompts right onto the form. My SLPA and I have discussed and planned to do the same thing!!!!!

  7. Great stuff! Loved your comment about the students who argue with you about whether their answer was correct or not. I found a great way to eliminate that. I put a bunch of my lessons into #TinyTap interactive activities which automatically scores their responses. It gives their total at the end. Since you are not the one “scoring” each response, there really is nothing to argue about. Plus it makes it seem more like a game to them and they buy into doing an activity over again to “up their game score.” But speaking of data collection, TinyTap activities not only give you the score at the end, they also have a data management service that lets you send students assignments, sends you their score and data analysis of which items were correct and which were incorrect, and tracks their progress over time. If you want to check it out you can get more info at: http://blog.tinytap.it/2015/05/tinytap-insights/.

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