AMPS Computer Scoring Software
Because of the complexity of converting a client's raw scores for two or three tasks
into linear ability measures, while simultaneously adjusting those ability measures
for the challenge of the tasks the client performed and the severity of the examiner
who scored the client's performance, the AMPS must be computer scored. Resulting
measures represent the client's ADL motor ability and ADL process ability.
The therapist can use the software to generate several reports that assist with analysis
of a client'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.
Narrative Report
The new
Narrative Report can serve as an actual
narrative documentation of an AMPS evaluation. It reports the client'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. For children,
standard scores and percentile ranks are also reported.
Graphic Report
The
Graphic Report is a visual representation
of the client's ability measures plotted on the AMPS motor and process scales in reference to cutoff
measures. ADL ability measures below the cutoff indicate of evidence of problems that impact performance.
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 ADL motor scale represents physical effort, while
the ADL process scale refers to efficiency. Either scale may reflect safety and/or independence.
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.