Teaching · Related Services

Does the skill work outside therapy?

Set the team’s target, then log each try in a new setting, with a new person or new materials. The log shows how far the skill has traveled and where to try it next.

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The generalization log

One log per student and skill. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with: Independent performance counted by settings, people and materials against the team’s target, the share of tries independent and where to try next.
Who it is for: School occupational and physical therapists and the teachers and paraprofessionals who carry skills into the day.
Format: Browser form. One saved log per student and skill; printed with the summary or as a blank log; CSV of every try; export and import a file.
Access: $19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. A skill is learned when it works on a different lock, in a different hallway, with a different adult nearby.

How to use it

Name the task and agree the target with the team.
After the skill holds in therapy, plan tries in other places with other adults.
Log each try with the result; independent means no prompt at all.
Go where the summary points next.
When the target is met, keep a monthly check in a new setting.

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How generalization is counted

Three ways to vary

Settings, people and materials each change what the student has to notice. A skill that works with only one adult or one lock has not generalized yet.

The target

Teams commonly ask for independence in three settings with two adults, but the number is a team decision for the skill and the student. Set it here so the log can track it.

What this is not

A measure of how well the skill was learned in therapy. Log teaching sessions separately.

Sources

Stokes, T. F., & Baer, D. M. (1977). An implicit technology of generalization. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 10(2), 349–367.
Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied Behavior Analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson: planning for generalization and maintenance.
American Occupational Therapy Association (2020). Occupational therapy practice framework: Domain and process (4th ed.).
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.320(a)(2)–(3): measurable goals and how progress is measured.

The example student and tries are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.