AMPS Computer Scoring Software

Because of the complexity of converting a person's raw scores for two or more tasks into linear ability measures, while simultaneously adjusting those ability measures for the challenge of the tasks the person performed and the severity of the occupational therapist who scored the person's performance, the AMPS must be computer scored. Resulting measures represent the person's ADL motor ability and ADL process ability.

The therapist can use the software to generate several reports that assist with analysis of a person's ADL ability measures, intervention planning, and interpreting the significance of a change in ADL ability after test-retest evaluations. Report details and links to example reports are found below.

Results and Interpretation of an AMPS Evaluation Report
The Results and Interpretation Report can serve as a narrative documentation of an AMPS evaluation. It presents the results of an AMPS evaluation in client-friendly language. More specifically, it reports the person's overall quality of performance (safety, effort, efficiency, independence), ADL motor and ADL process ability measures, and a comparison of those measures with ADL motor and ADL process ability measures of healthy, well people of the same age. The rater also has the option of selecting skills that most impacted performance, and they too will be listed in the report. Finally, if the rater chooses, the report can include a statement predicting the person's need for assistance to live in the community.

Graphic Report
The Graphic Report is a visual representation of the person's ability measures plotted on the AMPS motor and process scales in reference to (a) cutoff measures, and (b) the normative range for healthy, well people the same age. ADL ability measures below the cutoff indicate of evidence of problems that impact performance. If the person's ADL motor or ADL process ability measure is below the vertical band, the person's observed ADL ability was below age expectations.

Progress Report
The new Progress Report is a Graphic Report with two AMPS evaluations. The narrative at the bottom of the report tells you if the person improved, remained unchanged or declined.

Performance Skill Summary
The Performance Skill Summary is an evaluation report that summarizes the results of the AMPS observation. There are two pages of a summary report, a Motor Skills Summary and a Process Skills Summary.

This page was last modified on 11 January 2010