Teaching · Speech and Language

One goal, one data sheet, a clear answer on mastery.

Write the goal and its criterion once. Each session takes a line of correct responses, trials and prompts, and the sheet tells you the latest percent, the run at criterion and when the goal is met.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Speech & Language toolkit, $79 for 72 items.

The goal data sheet

One record per goal, under a student code. Print a blank one to take into the session. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & LanguageAlso for Teaching · Special Education$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each goal, session-by-session percent correct and prompt level, the run of sessions at criterion, the trend and whether mastery is met.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists, special education teachers, related service providers and paraprofessionals taking goal data.
Format
Browser data sheet kept across sessions, plus a printable paper sheet. One saved record per goal; printed with the summary or blank; CSV of the sessions; 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 Speech & Language toolkit ($79) 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 Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching; also listed in the Special Education space (the same data sheet serves special education teachers).
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
tally every trial, watch the line climb
Drawn for this page. Trial-by-trial counts turn into a percent per session, and the sessions together show whether the goal is met.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student code and the date the goal started.
  2. Copy in the goal and define a correct response.
  3. Enter the mastery percent, sessions in a row and trials per session.
  4. Add a line after each session.
  5. Use the summary for progress reports.

Start a data sheet

What the data sheet is for

Counting the criterion

A session counts toward mastery here only when it reaches the percent with no prompts, and the sessions must come in a row. If the goal is written differently, for example allowing a cue, follow the goal and note it on the sheet.

Enough trials

With 5 trials, one response moves the percent by 20 points. Keep trials close to the planned number so sessions compare fairly; the summary flags sessions well short of it.

What this is not

A data sheet for one goal. It does not write goals or judge whether a goal is appropriate, and its percents are criteria the team set, not norms.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.320(a)(2) and (a)(3) (measurable annual goals; how progress will be measured and reported).
  2. Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District RE-1, 580 U.S. 386 (2017), on progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.
  3. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Practice Portal: Documentation in Schools.
  4. Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., and Heward, W. L. (2020), Applied Behavior Analysis, 3rd ed., chapters on measuring behavior and prompting.

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