EIBI Summary

1503 Words4 Pages

The raters were trained in the use of the coding system to rate the videos, through the self-guided DVD training and by reading the YMQI manual. Then, the raters were tested on the understanding of EIBI by completing the worksheets in the first week and obtaining around 80% correct answers on the multiple choices exam that tests behaviour principles. As for rating IBI sessions on five practice video recordings (5 minutes long), the rater must have at least 80% agreement on three training video recordings before starting to rate (Whiteford et al., 2012). Before start coding, the rater received 90% correct answers on the multiple choices exam and more than 80% agreement on five training video recordings; 80.64%, 85%, 88%, 91%, and 85%. The …show more content…

Teaching goals are the outcomes that the therapist targets and focusses on in each session. They are a type of target that a therapist uses to create a particular instruction. Teaching goals include ten teaching skills; attending, imitation, receptive and expressive communication, visual performance, self-help, pre-academics, academic, social skills and plays, and independence. Teaching goals in each session were planned to follow the children’s individual education programme by supervisors, therapists and relevant …show more content…

Also, the rating N/A could be used when there is nothing related with that item. For example, rated N/A when no repeated trials of the same exemplar or rated N/A when there is no prompt. The YMQI has two main approaches to rating items: the frequency approach and the evidence approach. Some items use both approaches. The frequency approach is looking for mistakes (problems that may occur in each session), significant mistakes (serious problems that may occur in each session) or how much the therapist corrected (such as total number of trials, reinforers given within 2-3 seconds after the correct response or use of the variety of prompts in different way, and so on.). As for the evidence approach, to show the evidence of high quality of teaching, that is looking for evidence that there are no clearly indentified mistake (such as item2: there are two or more exemplars for, which wording is varied), and missed opportunities (such as item2: there are many repeated trails (5 or more) of the same exemplars). A lower score on an item that is based on an evidence approach does not mean that teaching is poor. However, high scores can indicate high quality for each specific

Open Document