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Add up time spent on several activities

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When to use this goal

For students who need to total minutes and hours across a day or week (homework time, practice logs, volunteer hours). Present levels in adding hours and minutes with regrouping decide readiness.

Baseline
Record regrouping errors (100 minutes in an hour) and calculator decimals read as minutes (1.5 hours as 1 hour 50 minutes).
Tips
Volunteer and work hours matter for graduation and jobs in some programs.
Limits
Calculator decimals of hours need a separate conversion step.

Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID ma-mtm-054.

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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

Percent of attempted items answered correctly.

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

Criterion wording

Data collection

Scoring completed student work (permanent products) against a defined answer key or checklist.

How often data are collected
Mastery rule

How many measurements must meet the criterion.

Timeframe

Timeframe

Goal

By the annual IEP review date, given a log of 5 to 8 activities with durations in minutes or hours and minutes, the student will add the durations, regroup minutes into hours, and write the total in hours and minutes independently with at least 85% accuracy on duration totals, on 3 of 4 consecutive probes, as measured by work-sample analysis collected every two weeks.

Baseline: 25% accuracy.

  • Condition
  • Observable behavior
  • Criterion
  • Measurement method

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

  • Met: Condition. Stated.

  • Met: Unit fits the behavior. Percent accuracy fits this behavior.

  • Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.

  • Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.

  • Met: Method produces the metric. Work-sample analysis gives percent accuracy 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 Measurement, Time & Money.

  • Met: Level of support. Defined.

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

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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
Math - Measurement, Time & Money
Baseline
25% accuracy.
Annual goal370 characters
By the annual IEP review date, given a log of 5 to 8 activities with durations in minutes or hours and minutes, the student will add the durations, regroup minutes into hours, and write the total in hours and minutes independently with at least 85% accuracy on duration totals, on 3 of 4 consecutive probes, as measured by work-sample analysis collected every two weeks.
Timeframe
By the annual IEP review date
Condition
Given a log of 5 to 8 activities with durations in minutes or hours and minutes
Behavior
The student will add the durations, regroup minutes into hours, and write the total in hours and minutes independently
Criteria
With at least 85% accuracy on duration totals, on 3 of 4 consecutive probes
Evaluation method
Work-sample analysis
Schedule
Every two weeks

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Matching data sheet

Accuracy tracker. Records number correct and number attempted.

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