Each Term is followed by a brief definition, click on the term for additional information

• Formative Assessment – Informs teaching and student learning during instruction
• Whole Interval – If a behavior occurs for the entire duration of an interval of time
• Summative Assessment – Evaluates teaching and student learning at the end of a lesson, unit, or course
• Momentary Time Sampling – Data is recorded only at the end of a specified time interval
• Benchmark – Targeted goal or objective derived from large sample of data
• CBM – General outcome measurement that provides ongoing performance feedback that is used to evaluate instruction
• Screening – Identifies individuals that are at-risk
• CBA – Test stimuli taken from curriculum, tested repeatedly over time, and information is used to inform instruction
• Diagnostic – Provides detailed information regarding a student’s current skills and knowledge
• Antecedent – The environmental condition in which a behavior occurs
• Adequate Yearly Progress – Continuous and substantial yearly progress toward state academic standards
• Anecdotal Observation – Creating a narrative of events
• Validity – Warranted conclusions about relationships between variables
• Functional Analysis – Systematic manipulation of a potential variables maintaining a behavior
• Reliability – Consistently having the same or similar scores
• Task Analysis – Breaking down an academic or behavioral task into component steps
• Sensitivity to Change – Smallest level of learning needed to impact measurement
• Accommodation – Alterations that allow access to content
• Event Recording – Recording each occurrence of a behavior
• Modification – Alterations that modify content in order to be appropriate
• Partial Interval – If a behavior occurs at any time during an interval of time

Thanks to Alex Smith (Univeristy of Missouri) and Alisa Baroffio, Nicole Bobrzynski, Katelyn Emigh, Lucia Gugliotta-Kremer, Ciarra Lewis, Michelle Mannella and Emily Zeh (Duquesne University) for the development of this glossary!