School Version of the AMPS (School AMPS)

School AMPS Software

The School AMPS computer-scoring software converts a student's raw scores for two or more schoolwork tasks into linear ability measures, while simultaneously adjusting those ability measures for the challenge of the tasks and the severity of the examiner who scored the student's performance. Resulting measures are a quantitative representation of a student's overall ability to perform schoolwork tasks, reflecting the student's degree of physical effort, efficiency, safety, and independence while doing schoolwork.

School AMPS 2005 has been standardized on more than 1,500 students!

• It includes reports that assist the therapist with:
• analysis of a student's school motor and school process ability measures,
• intervention planning, and
• interpreting the significance of a change in school ability after test-retest evaluations.
• An individualized narrative report is written with student-friendly language and assists with comparing a student's school ability measures with those of typically developing, same-age students.
• School abilities are reported in logits, standard scores, and percentile ranks.

Therapists will find this program very easy to use.
• It is easy to add new students, add new therapists, and quickly find old students.
• Therapists can save reports in a portable digital format (PDF) for saving or sharing.
• User-assistance windows are readily accessible when selecting diagnostic categories, marking the classroom environment, and rating the student's quality of occupational performance.
• Versatile installation allows therapists to install the program to a computer harddrive, a shared network drive, or a personal USB flash drive. If installed on a USB flash drive, the therapist can run School AMPS 2005 on any computer with Windows 98SE or later operating system. All that is needed is to plug the USB flash drive into a local computer, enter the data, then print or save reports! The program does not need to be installed on a computer in each site. This is particularly helpful for therapists who travel to more than one site.
• Therapists can import data from an earlier generation of the School AMPS computer-scoring software so no records are lost.

School AMPS computer-scoring software is only available as part of a School AMPS training course. Therapists who have a valid School AMPS 2003 passcode and calibration code may continue to use their software as long as it is run on older computer systems. The opportunity to upgrade to School AMPS 2005 ended March 1, 2006.

This page was last modified on 11 January 2010