With a focus on children with multiple disabilities (CMD), the purpose of this quality
improvement project was to elevate educational measurement and practices involving CMD …

Goal setting and attainment is often a targeted outcome in the intellectual and
developmental disabilities field; however, standardizing the measurement of attainment of …

Conventional assessment methods have serious limitations for measuring program impact
with special education populations, and do not contribute much to managing effective IEP …

This article reviews goal attainment scaling as an alternative method for evaluating
treatments and programs for children with autism. Traditional evaluation methods such as …

Economic pressures for public health and human services systems to control budgets are
increasing the need for demonstrating value of support services provided to persons with …

Mr. Lopez's 10th-grade class is responsible for the Tiger Store, a school-based enterprise
that sells healthy snacks and school supplies to students and staff. Every week, Mr. Lopez's …

Purpose: To explore the relationships of school-based physical therapy services to student
goal achievement. Methods: One hundred nine physical therapists and 296 students …

This article describes principles and practices of data collection to evaluate the attainment of
meaningful outcomes in educational services for students with severe disabilities and …

Organizations that support persons with intellectual disabilities will likely experience
increasing pressure to provide evidence of the benefits of services to participants in …

Public and private health and human service organizations currently face two challenges
regarding measuring outcomes and managing for results: demonstrating fiscal and …