Steps in Matching a Behavior Report Card to a Particular Student. Here are
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The Classroom
Behavior Report Card Resource Book
The Classroom Behavior Report Card Resource
Book contains pre-formatted teacher and student behavior report cards,
along with customized graphs, for common types of behavioral concerns in the classroom. It was designed to give
teachers and other school professionals a convenient collection of forms for rating the behaviors of students in
such areas of concern as physical aggression, inattention/hyperactivity, and verbal behaviors.
Steps in Matching a Behavior Report Card to a Particular Student. Here are
the
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steps teachers can follow to select the appropriate Behavior Report Card to use with an individual student:
) and selects a pre-formatted Teacher Behavior Report Card that most closely matches
the student behavioral concerns that they wish to measure.
Since it is important that the student learn the teacher's behavioral expectations, the instructor should meet with the student daily, ask the student to rate their own behaviors, and then share with the student the teacher's ratings of those same behaviors. The teacher and student can use this time to discuss any discrepancies in rating between their two forms. (If report card ratings points are to be applied toward a student reward program, the teacher might consider allowing points earned on a particular card item to count toward a reward only if the student's ratings fall within a point of the teacher's, to encourage the student to be accurate in their ratings.)
NOTE: Student cards differ from teacher cards in that some of the student items have been slightly reworded so that young readers can more readily understand them. Student cards at the Primary level also have a simplified, 3-item response format with 'smiley faces' that students in earlier grades will find easy to complete.
Finding the Appropriate Behavior Report Card: Hints. Behavior
Report Cards are simple to use and can provide good information about student behaviors. When selecting a specific
Behavior Report Card from the Resource Book,
the instructor can get useful information about each of the many pre-formatted cards in the Resource Book by looking
at the page header (see Figure 1).
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From left to right, the header indicates the class
of behaviors the specific Report Card is designed to measure, who is to complete the card (teacher or student),
how many times the card can be used (once
for Daily cards, across a full week for Weekly cards), and the level
of the card (Primary vs. Intermediate/Secondary).
TIps to Increase the Reliability of Teacher Behavior Report Cards. Behavior Report Cards can be good sources of teacher information about student behaviors.
However, most of the behavioral goals contained in this manual's Report Cards are general in focus. When a teacher's
ratings on Report Cards are based solely on subjective opinions, though, there is a danger that the teacher will
apply inconsistent standards each day when rating student behaviors. This inconsistency in assessment can quickly
undermine the usefulness of report card data. One suggestions that teachers can follow to make it more likely that
their report card ratings are consistent and objective over time is to come up with specific guidelines for rating
each behavioral goal.
For example, one item in the Verbal Behaviors I Teacher Report Card states that "The student spoke respectfully
and complied with adult requests without argument or complaint." It is up to the teacher to decide how to
translate so general a goal into a rubric of specific, observable criteria that permits the teacher to rate the
student on this item according to a 9-point scale. In developing such criteria, the instructor will want to consider:
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