School AMPS Computer-scoring Software

Because of the complexity of converting a student's raw scores for at least two tasks into linear ability measures, while simultaneously adjusting those quality of performance measures for the challenge of the tasks the student performed and the severity of the examiner who scored the student's performance, the School AMPS must be computer scored. Resulting measures represent the student's school motor and school process quality of performance. Only quality of performance measures can be used to measure change.

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

Narrative Report
The Narrative Report can serve as an actual narrative documentation of an AMPS evaluation. It reports the student's overall quality of performance (safety, effort, efficiency, independence). The rater also has the option of selecting up to 10 skills that most impacted performance, and they too will be listed in the report. Finally, and perhaps most exciting, is that the report provides both a criterion- and norm-based interpretation. Standard scores and percentile ranks are also reported.

Graphic Report
The Graphic Report is a visual representation of the student's quality of performance measures plotted on the School AMPS motor and process scales in reference to cutoff measures. School quality of performance measures below the cutoff indicate of evidence of problems that impact performance. School AMPS 2005 introduces some upgrades to the Graphic Report. The report is now in color, with more clarifying text about each scale tells us. The school motor scale represents physical effort, while the school process scale refers to efficiency. Either scale may reflect safety and/or independence.

Progress Report
The Progress Report is a Graphic Report with two School 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 School 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 27 November 2011