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4.2: Resources for Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)

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    A number of resources for conducting interviews and observations are available via the Internet. For example, www.functionbasedthinking.com is a comprehensive website with a training manual, interview and observation tools, and interactive web lessons based on the research-based Basic FBA process (Loman, Strickland-Cohen, & Borgmeier, 2013). At this website, the interview tool that is taught is the modified Functional Assessment Checklists for Teachers (FACTS; March, Horner, Lewis-Palmer, Brown, Crone, & Todd, 1999) available at: sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/functionbasedthinking/home/fba-bsp-instructionsand-forms. Another useful interview tool for identifying the function of behavior that is available online is the Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS; Durand, 1990: www.nsseo.org/wp-content/uploads/MAS.pdf). The ABC Recording Form (Loman, 2009) is taught and used as an observation procedure within the Basic FBA process: sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/functionbasedthinking/home/fba-bspinstructions-and-forms. Another popular tool is the Scatterplot that helps teachers track student behavior across times and days. This scatterplot tool is available at: www.pbisillinois.org/curriculum/Course-Materials/t200fi-individualized-studentsupport-via-complex-fba-bip-wraparound-for-students-with-tertiary-levelneeds/T200fi-ScatterPlot-ILPBIS-9.3.08.doc?attredirects=0. For more information on the FBA process, review the training materials on www.functionbasedthinking.com and www.pbisillinois.org/trainings/fba-bip-training-materials. The PBIS Illinois website offers links to past webinars presenting information on conducting an FBA and designing function-based supports.

    This page titled 4.2: Resources for Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Samuel Sennott, Sheldon Loman, Kristy Lee Park, Luis F. Pérez, Michael J. Kennedy, John Romig, & Wendy J. Rodgers (Portland State University Library) .