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Do a job task from a how-to video

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When to use this goal

For transition-age students who can learn work tasks from video prompting and need fewer job coach prompts. The video should show the real task at the real site, recorded from the worker's view. Present levels, not grade, decide the number of clips.

Baseline
Score the task once with spoken job coach directions and once with the video. Record prompts needed for each clip.
Tips
Supervisors or coworkers can record the video; it doubles as training for future employees. Rewrite step names to the actual job. Earbuds keep audio private.
Limits
Phone use rules vary by employer. Video prompting fits learned tasks less well than new ones; fade it as the task becomes routine.

Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID ef-dir-024.

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Student

How the goal refers to the student

Skill

What the student will do

Something an adult can see, count or time.

Condition

When or under what conditions

Support

Support allowed

Criterion

Number of routine steps performed independently.

Sample numbers. Replace them with the student's data.

Task-analysis steps

Write each step so an observer can mark it done or not done.

Criterion wording

Data collection

A routine is broken into ordered steps; each step is recorded as independent, supported, or not completed.

How often data are collected
Mastery rule

How many measurements must meet the criterion.

Timeframe

Timeframe

Goal

By the annual IEP review date, at a work-based learning site, given a phone or tablet with a how-to video of a new task cut into short clips, the student will watch each clip and do that step of the job before moving to the next clip, performing at least 7 of 8 steps independently, on 3 consecutive shifts, as measured by a task-analysis checklist collected each shift with the task.

Baseline: 2 of 8 steps independently.

  • Condition
  • Observable behavior
  • Criterion
  • Measurement method

ObjectivesCopy by fieldData sheet

Measurability check11 of 11 met
  • Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.

  • Met: Condition. Stated.

  • Met: Unit fits the behavior. Task-analysis steps fits this behavior.

  • Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.

  • Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.

  • Met: Method produces the metric. Task-analysis checklist gives task-analysis steps data.

  • Met: Review timeframe. Stated.

  • Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.

  • Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Following Multi-Step Directions.

  • Met: Level of support. Defined.

  • Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.

Checks structure and wording only. Whether the goal fits the student is the team's call.

Short-term objectives (optional)

When are objectives required?

Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.

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Area of need
Executive Function - Following Multi-Step Directions
Baseline
2 of 8 steps independently.
Annual goal384 characters
By the annual IEP review date, at a work-based learning site, given a phone or tablet with a how-to video of a new task cut into short clips, the student will watch each clip and do that step of the job before moving to the next clip, performing at least 7 of 8 steps independently, on 3 consecutive shifts, as measured by a task-analysis checklist collected each shift with the task.
Timeframe
By the annual IEP review date
Condition
At a work-based learning site, given a phone or tablet with a how-to video of a new task cut into short clips
Behavior
The student will watch each clip and do that step of the job before moving to the next clip
Criteria
Performing at least 7 of 8 steps independently, on 3 consecutive shifts
Evaluation method
A task-analysis checklist
Schedule
Each shift with the task

Copied as plain text, with straight quotes and plain dashes.

Matching data sheet

Task-analysis checklist. Marks each step in each session.

The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.