Placement IDENTIFIERS Adaptive Behavior Scales

The project sought to clarify the nature and structure of adaptive functioning and to address methodological issues in its assessment, in order to improve placement, evaluation, and instructional decision-making related to adaptive functioning. Project components included: (1) exploration of the structure of adaptive behavior; (2) comparison of adaptive functioning performance as a function of level of disability; (3) comparison of adaptive functioning performance as a function of level of educational service placement; (4) exploration of the effects of evaluator characteristics and evaluation format on adaptive functioning assessment; (5) exploration of the influence of environmental context and opportunity on adaptive functioning; and (6) exploration of the relationship between observed behaviors in natural environments and adaptive functioning assessment. For each component, this report provides F literature review and summarizes the results of several empirical investigations carrieJ out by the project. A list of project reports, articles, presentations, and personnel is included. (JDD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ************2 **** * ***********************W****************************