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Description
The MAS English Bundle includes:
- the Motivation Assessment Scale Administration Guide in English
- 25 Motivation Assessment Scale forms in English
About the MAS
The Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS)© is designed to help with a language impaired person’s problem behaviors. An understanding of the person’s motivations becomes a guide for interventions such as restructuring the environment or teaching that person skills for fulfilling personal needs in a more effective and productive way. The emphasis is on understanding, respecting and facilitating the person successfully negotiating the environment.
The Motivation Assessment Scale
- A powerful tool to respond effectively to behavior
- Quickly assesses motivation, a function of problem behavior
- Improves Positive Behavioral Interventions
- Research-based, tested, and validated
- Easy to administer in educational and institutional settings
- Used by psychologists and teachers since 1988
Table of Contents
MAS Administration Guide
INTRODUCTION
- Obstacles to Positive Intervention
- The MAS
- About Our Terminology
BACKGROUND
- Why Ask Why?
- How Big a Problem?
- Some Reasons Why
- Social Attention
- Tangibles
- Escape
- Sensory Feedback
- Multiple Motivations
- Other Influences
- Being Consistent
THE MOTIVATION ASSESSMENT SCALE
- Item Selection
- Individual Item Descriptions
- The Use Of Other Assessment Methods
ADMINISTRATION
- Using the MAS with Raters
- Using the MAS as an Interview Tool
- Completing the MAS
- Behavior Description
- Frequent Behaviors
- Infrequent Behaviors
- Setting Description
- Rating the Items
- Scoring Procedure
SCORE INTERPRETATION
- Close Scores/Ties
- Obstacles to Clear Interpretation
TREATMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS
- Setting Changes
- Teaching Alternative Behaviors
- Identifying Effective Reinforcers
- Trouble-Shooting
RESEARCH ON THE MAS
- Reliability
- Factor Structure
- Validity
- Treatment Design
- The MAS Compared to Unstructured Verbal Report
- Related Research
REFERENCES
APPENDIX: MOTIVATION ASSESSMENT SCALE
INDEX