Goal Attainment Scaling: An Efficient and Effective Approach to Monitoring Student Progress
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چکیده
Goal attainment scales (GAS) provide an individualized, criterion-referenced approach to describing changes in the performance of students and can be very useful in documenting changes involving academic and social behaviors. When this technique is used in educational contexts, teachers, parents, consultants, or students can complete GAS ratings, thus providing an indirect measure of academic or social behavior performance. The basic methodology of GAS involves the following steps: • Select a target behavior. • Describe the desired behavior or academic outcome in objective terms. • Develop three to five descriptions of the probable outcomes from “least favorable” to “most favorable (Elliott, Sladeczek, & Kratochwill, 1995).
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