TPS Analysis of Increasing Target Behavior Ratings & Decreasing Target Behavior Ratings
TPS summarizes and quantifies students' performance with 20 analytic perspectives producing comprehensive range of behaviorally meaningful graphs and analyses to evaluate and monitor behavioral interventions. Below are but a few examples of TPS graphs and analyses.
TPS summarizes and quantifies students' performance with 20 analytic perspectives producing comprehensive range of behaviorally meaningful graphs and analyses to evaluate and monitor behavioral interventions. Below are but a few examples of TPS graphs and analyses.
Daily Average Rating
TPS offers summaries based on percentages and averages. Displayed here are daily averages of a student's ratings for "Respectful Behavior." Each data point reflects behavior across all available academic blocks. Dots show daily averages of all ratings (0-4). X's show daily averages of non-zero ratings (1-4), so that we can readily evaluate daily averages when the student actually exhibited each target behavior. For increasing target behaviors, students typically earn at least a rating of 1 (low frequency, duration, and intensity) for the day, so that few zeros are recorded. However, on 10/15, we see that some zeros were earned, and this resulted in a lower average as shown by dots compared to the average shown by X's. Differences between dots and averages tend to be more distinct for decreasing target behaviors because students tend to earn lots of zeros, as they tend not to exhibit aggression during every recording block.
In the graph below, we see a much larger difference between dots and X's, due to the contribution of ratings of zero to the calculation of averages as shown by X's. Dots display the overall daily average rating, including ratings of zeros, while X's show the average rating when the student exhibited verbal aggression, resulting in a highly informative graph of the student's performance.
TPS offers analysis of weekly averages, monthly averages, and quarterly averages of ratings.
Monthly Summaries
The analysis shown below offers a comprehensive overview of student's monthly performance of the Percentage of Ratings, Percentage of Occurrence (percentage of recording blocks in which the target behavior occurred), and Intensity (average rating without zeros). TPS provides a similar analysis for quarterly reporting as well, and associated graphs of monthly and quarterly performance.
Weekly Percentages of Ratings and Occurrence, and Weekly Average Intensity
Blue circles show weekly percentages of ratings. Red X's show weekly percentages of occurrence. These measures use the vertical axis on the left of each graph. Green bars show the weekly average of non-zero ratings, and uses the vertical axis on the right of each graph.
Blue circles show weekly percentages of ratings. Red X's show weekly percentages of occurrence. These measures use the vertical axis on the left of each graph. Green bars show the weekly average of non-zero ratings, and uses the vertical axis on the right of each graph.
Analyses of Rating Distribution
Analysis of Ratings, shown below, evaluates the distribution of ratings, i.e., how many 0's, 1's, 2's, 3's, and 4's were earned for each target behavior. There are too many possible comparisons to summarize here in text, but perhaps the most useful statistic is the Percentage of Incidence shown on the right side of the table. Percentages of Incidence are displayed in the following graph that is often used to summarize performance in correspondence with parents.
Analysis of Performance per Recording Period
This TPS graph analyzes increasing and decreasing goals per academic block, offering an excellent way to determine which academic blocks are supporting increasing and decreasing target behaviors. As you can see in the data table, during the second recording block of English & Language Arts (ELA) " this student's percentage of rating points earned for verbal aggression increased to 17%. Physical aggression toward persons also increased during ELA, at 4% of possible rating points.
At the bottom are totals for each column, showing that the student is earning between 55%-59% of possible rating points for increasing target behaviors, and between 1% and 11% for decreasing target behaviors.
TPS offers six other varieties of analysis by recording period: Count of data, Count of Occurrence, Rating Percentage, Occurrence Percentage, Average Rating with zeros, Average Rating without Zeros. Each of these varieties emphasizes properties of the data set and behavior as a function of recording periods.
Home Notes
TPS has a convenient and informative Home Note feature that translates increasing target behavior ratings to upward facing arrows and decreasing target behaviors to downward facing arrows. Text entered during each recording period is displayed at the right. Daily average increasing target behavior percentages minus daily average of decreasing target behavior percentages is displayed in large purple font at the bottom left offering a single statistic to describe the student's daily performance. This image is conveniently shared through email communication eliminating the need to print a Home Note. Weekly Home notes, preferred by some parents, are also available.
Managing Students' Behavior at the District Level with Power TPS
Power TPS is an on-line, interactive dashboard of TPS data at student, teacher, school, and district levels! District Administrators can now view all students' TPS data at each level of integration within the district. Principals, Assistant Principals, and Behavior Specialists can monitor TPS performance at their school level. Power TPS is designed to interactively answer questions.
The image at right summarizes TPS data for sixteen schools for a three week period. Each pair of blue and red histograms displays weekly summaries of all students' TPS increasing and decreasing target percentages, enabling District Supervisors to easily monitor service delivery.
The graph below shows year-to-date performance for all students with TPS data, summarized by school. The graph below, right, shows each student's performance by weeks, enabling the user to easily sort data by date, student, school, and performance percentages. (Names are obscured by gray rectangles to protect confidentiality.) This is but a brief sample of the extensive range of data analyses available with Power TPS, enabling District staff to proactively assign additional support based on students' TPS data, advise school-based staff on available programmatic changes, etc.
