Skill Editor

When you see a Red circle or a next button, like this, that means we want you to click on something. These are the same steps you’ll take when you’re working with your patients. For now, let’s go ahead and click “Next”. Welcome to ABPathfinder! I’m Abbie, and I’ll be leading you through how to add and edit skills in the Skills Editor today. Next There is just one thing before we get started. Throughout this guide, I’ll ask for your help.

To create or edit a skill, you must have the role of “admin” assigned to the account you’re using to login. If you don’t have this permission, you will need to contact your system administrator. Start by clicking on the “Administer” button and select “Protocol”.

Under “Protocol”, select “Skills”.

If you need to edit a skill (add more targets, change prompts, or score types) select the pencil icon here. To add a new skill, you’ll use the “New” icon. You can add skills to any protocol that contains your company name.

Next Let's talk about each of the areas one by one. Prior to saving a new skill you will need to fill out the required information. This includes: protocol, domain, assessment role, Skill ID, title, and default score type.

First, you will want to select your custom protocol that fits with the skill the best. If you don’t have a custom protocol, use the Ad-Hoc to start building up your own protocol. Next

I am going to create a new writing skill. Domains are a group of similar skills. Depending on your protocol this could be set up by academic type such as Math, Reading or Receptive Skills.

Assessment role is where you define if the skill will be included as a baseline skill or teaching or both. This skill is going to be general use so that I can collect baseline and teaching data (use on data sheets). Next

Skill ID is used by the system to uniquely identify skills. Next

The title is a short version of your description. The title will appear on Scout. Next The description allows you to include further information that might help support your leads in which skill to choose for a patient. The descriptions will appear on the web when you are creating a baseline or data sheet.

Next we need to set the default score type. Remember when you are creating a data sheet you can adjust the score type between accuracy, prompt fade, and frequency. Next If the default score type is set to task analysis, you won’t be able to adjust the score type when creating a data sheet.

Now that all the required information is entered, you can hit save. Notice you get an annotate button at the top of the screen. Next Adding notes under the skill annotate allows you to add or create teaching tips for a skill. Teaching tips appear under the blue i (information) button on the web and Scout.

Let’s talk about the additional information you can define for a skill. Next Remember when you see a yellow star with an add sign, that means you can add new. The binoculars will allow you to search for items already created.

Next Under Program/Teaching Tips you are able to add SD’s. Add a variety of prompt types. You can set them to include a faded and full prompt. Include possible score types here.

Next Mastery recommendation criteria is set to a default that was provided by your company. Notice this includes skill and target mastery recommendations.

Next Create your task analysis steps or your target list.

Next Create your presentation list.

Next If you are going to be using this skill with your baselines, you will need to add in scoring information here. When you create a baseline, you must first create a skill group. In this area, you will want to add the skill to any and all appropriate skill groups. Use the binoculars to search skill groups you have already created.

Next Using scoring measurement you can set your baseline to be scored as enumerated list. For example, not in repertoire, partial, or achieved. Or you can set it to be scored as a numeric score, you will need to enter a min, max and scoring increment. For example, min number of 0, max of 4 score, increment of 1. This will allow me to score the skill as a 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.

I encourage you to hit save throughout the creation of the skills. Once you do hit save, you will see the annotate button appear. At any point, you can create a new note under annotate. The note section here is where you can create teaching tips and general notes. The tips and notes appear on the web and Scout under the “i” button.

Type in your teaching tips or notes here, select the type below and save.

Save and close. Just remember, the required fields are protocol, domain, assessment role, Skill ID, title, and default score type.

Congratulations you have created your first skill!!! Remember you can edit any skills in your system. Changes made here will reflex for all patients.