ABA

Graphs

Graph a learner's program data by session, day, week or month, keep probes on their own series, draw trend, aim and criterion lines, split a graph by short-term objective, see every program graph together, set titles and y axes, average points per session or day, graph a single task-analysis step, add and edit event lines, condition lines, condition labels and path breaks, see clinic-wide marks, save graph defaults, export to PDF or PNG, read a visual analysis of level, trend and variability, compare programs on a combined graph, chart a behavior on a standard celeration chart, see a behavior's scatterplot, ABC and function charts, and add, correct, delete or export the data behind the graph.

Open the learner's chart, choose Clinical > Progress and open the Graphs tab. Program Graph shows one program at a time with the data behind it; All Graphs shows every active program graph of the learner together. Combined puts several programs on one graph, Celeration draws a frequency program on a standard celeration chart and Behavior Patterns shows when and around what a behavior happens. The graph marks drawn on the graphs are listed under them.

Read the graph#

Points are spaced evenly, one per session, or one per day, week or month when you group them. Weeks run Monday to Sunday. A grouped point adds up counts and times and averages percents, the same way the session collector's live graph and its This week figure do.
A dashed vertical line marks a phase change, with the phase named above the graph. Lines never connect across a phase change or across missing data.
Dotted purple lines are events such as a medication change or illness. They do not break the data path.
Condition lines you add are solid or dashed dark lines; condition labels are text at a date. Neither breaks the data path. Their text sits under the top edge of the graph, in rows so labels never overlap.
A path break breaks the data line over its dates: a gap leaves it open, a discontinued line bridges it with a faint dashed line.
Green diamonds mark mastery moves and met short-term goals. Moves on the same day share one diamond and one label, such as "Mastered, short-term goal met". A hollow diamond is an automatic change made under auto-advance. Hover a diamond to see every move behind it.
Hollow points are imported data. Data a caregiver recorded graphs as its own series named with "(caregiver)".
Probes graph as their own series, named after the target with "(probe)", so cold first-trial values never mix with teaching data. With Program total, probes add up to a separate Probe total line.
After a measure change, the earlier data graphs as its own series named with its measure, and a line labeled with the new measure marks the change.
Latency and inter-response time graph in seconds, ratings and scores as plain values, and permanent products as counts that add up over a grouped point. Ratings, scores and latencies average instead.
A dashed line in a series' color is its trend line, drawn over each phase with at least three points.
A solid orange line is the aim line, and a dashed green line is the criterion line of the current short-term objective (STO). Both are named in the legend under the graph, such as "STO#2 aim line".
A solid dark line labeled "STO#1 met" splits the graph where a short-term objective was met; the data path breaks there so each objective reads as its own span.

Change what you see#

Option	What it does
Show	Every target, one target, or the program total (the average of percents, or the sum of counts and times).
From and Through	The date range.
Group by	Each session, or one point per day, week or month: the total of counts and times, or the average of percents.
Each point	Whole interval totals counts and times (or averages percents) over the whole day, week or month. Average per session or Average per day first adds up each session or day, then plots the average of those, such as the average day in each week. It applies only when it is finer than Group by and is saved with the defaults.
Chart	Line or bar.
Values	All data, or initial observations: the first trial of each session for trial measures, the first pass for a task analysis.
Setting	All settings, or only sessions held at the clinic, at home, at school, in the community or by telehealth, to see whether a skill carries over. Imported data has no setting, so it shows only under All settings.
Trend line	None, Least squares (the straight line closest to every point) or Split-middle (a line through the middle of each half of the data, with as many points above it as below).
Aim line	A line from the end of baseline (the baseline average) to the current STO's target value on its target date. It shows only when the program is linked to a goal whose current STO has a target date.
Criterion line	A line across the graph at the current STO's target value.
Split by STO	Breaks the graph at each date a short-term objective was met, with an "STO#n met" line, numbered in plan order.
Prompt labels	Labels each session point with the prompt level its target was taught at, shortened to its initials (FP for full physical).
Split by setting	One line per setting the sessions took place in (clinic, home, school, community, telehealth), named with the setting, to compare how a skill generalizes.

The aim and criterion lines follow the short-term objective the program works toward on the graph's last day, from the plan in effect then. They show when the objective's criterion is in the graph's unit (percent, count, seconds or minutes); a rate per hour is not drawn on a graph of counts per session.

Turn on Custom title and y axis to give the graph its own title (it starts as the program name) and to fix the y axis with a Y minimum, Y maximum and Y step. Any part you leave empty stays automatic.

The graph sits in its own card under the options. Under it, Visual analysis describes each series' latest phase in words: its level (the average and range), its trend (rising, falling or flat, and whether that is toward the goal) and its variability (low, moderate or high), plus how much the level moved from the phase before. It is a decision aid computed from the data on screen; it never changes the plan. Click its Enlarge button (top right of the graph) to see it over the whole screen, or its Export button to save it (see Export).

Prompt use#

Under the graph of a discrete trial, percent independent or task analysis program, Prompt use shows the share of its trials and steps at each prompt level over the graph's dates: one bar per prompted level in hierarchy order, then Independent (correct with no prompt or at the independent level) and Incorrect. Use it to see whether prompts are fading. Export saves it as a PDF or PNG.

Save the graph defaults#

Click Save as Default to keep these options for the program (the setting is not saved; the graph opens on all settings). The graph opens with them next time, and reports, monthly summaries and exports draw the program's graph the same way, with its group by, chart, lines, STO split, title, y axis and graph marks (a report graph can pick its own group by and display). Saving needs permission to author the plan.

Apply to All Programs saves the options and gives every other program of the learner the same group by, chart, values, total, range, lines and STO split. Each program keeps its own title and y axis.
Turn on Use this y axis on all graphs before saving to give every other program the same y axis too.

See all graphs#

All Graphs shows a small graph for each active program. Narrow them by Category (skill acquisition, behavior reduction, replacement behavior, caregiver or staff competency, whichever the learner has) and set From, Through, Group by, Chart, Trend line, Aim line, Criterion line and Split by STO for all of them at once. Leave an option on Saved to see each graph the way it was saved; pick Show or Hide (or a trend method or None) to override it on every graph. Turn on Same y axis on all graphs to compare them on one scale. These options only change what you see; nothing is saved.

Pick 1, 2 or 3 graphs per row at the top right; fewer per row draws each graph taller, and your choice is remembered. Use a graph's Enlarge button to see it full screen without leaving the grid. Export saves it as a PDF or PNG image as drawn here. From the enlarged graph, Open Program Graph takes you to its saved settings, marks and data.

Step graph#

A task analysis program also shows a Step graph under its graph. Pick a step to graph it on its own: each point is the percent of the session's passes where that step was done correctly at an independent prompt level, in the target's phase that session. It uses the graph's From, Through and Group by, and has its own Enlarge and Export.

Combined graph#

Open Combined and pick up to eight programs. Each program's total (the average of its targets' percents) is its own line on one graph from 0 to 100, so you can compare progress across programs. Only programs graphed in percent can be combined (trials, percent independent, task analysis and interval programs); counts and times cannot share the axis. Set From, Through and Group by; leave the dates empty to use each program's saved range. Export saves the graph as a PDF or PNG image.

Celeration chart#

Open Celeration and pick a frequency program. The standard celeration chart plots the count per minute for each calendar day on a log scale from 0.001 to 1000, so the same slope always means the same proportional change. Days with a count of zero sit just under the bottom line. A dashed orange celeration line is fitted to each phase with at least three days above zero and labeled with how much the rate changes each week: x2 per week doubles, /2 per week halves. The chart covers the last twenty weeks unless you set From and Through. Export saves it as a PDF or PNG image with the celeration of each phase listed under it.

Behavior patterns#

Open Behavior Patterns and pick a program to see when and around what it happens, over the last 90 days unless you set From and Through:

Scatterplot counts each recorded occurrence by weekday and hour, in the time zone of the location the session was held at. Darker cells had more occurrences.
ABC chart counts the antecedents, consequences and settings written on the program's ABC records, the most frequent first (spelling and spacing differences are ignored).
Function chart shows each hypothesized function's share of the ABC records tagged with any function.

Voided sessions, a second observer's records and removed entries are left out. Each chart has its own Export.

Export#

Click the graph's Export button and choose PDF or PNG image. The file uses the program's saved title and y axis, draws the trend, aim, criterion and split lines shown on screen, and lists the graph marks and STO splits under the graph. To reproduce the graph as it stood on an earlier day, before later corrections or deletions, pick an As of date.

Graph marks#

Click Add Mark and choose its type. Choose a program to draw it on, or leave Every program to draw it on all of the learner's graphs. Each mark records who added it and when, and who last changed it.

To change a mark, open its row menu and choose Edit. You can change its date or dates, type, line style, legend choice, break style, label and the program it is drawn on. Edits keep the mark's history in the audit log. Delete removes it from the graphs.

Rows marked Clinic-wide come from clinic-wide graph marks in Setup, such as a closure. They draw on every graph of the learner and cannot be changed here; follow the Setup link next to them.

Type	What you enter
Event line	The date, the kind (medication change, illness, staff change, environmental change or other) and a short label.
Condition line	The date, a label and a solid or dashed line. Turn on Show only in the legend to name it under the graph without drawing it.
Condition label	The date and the text to show there.
Path break	The first and last date, and whether to draw it as a gap or a discontinued line. A note is optional.

Data history#

The data history lists every value behind the graph: one per session and target, plus imported values.

Correct records a new value in place of a wrong one. Enter the corrected value and why. The graph and mastery use the corrected value; the original stays in the history struck through, with who corrected it, when and why. A value is never changed without a trace. A corrected session value stands even if the session's entries change later. Correcting needs permission to correct ABA data.
Delete removes a value from the graph and from mastery. It needs a reason and stays in the history struck through, with who deleted it.
Add Value adds one prior value by hand: the date, the target (the program total when the program has no targets), the value, the phase and an optional note. It is saved like an imported row, so it graphs as a hollow imported point and can be corrected or deleted like any other value. Turn on Recorded by a caregiver for a value a caregiver counted at home: it is marked Caregiver in the data history, graphs as its own series named with "(caregiver)", and never moves a target to its next step.
Import CSV adds prior data for the program. Use the columns date, target, value, phase and note (target is required when the program has targets; phase defaults to the target's current phase; note is optional). Every row is checked first, and nothing is imported if one has a problem.
Export CSV saves the program's values as a CSV file, one row per day (or per week, dated by its Monday) for each target, phase and setting, for a date range or all dates, and optionally for one setting. Counts and times add up; percents average. Deleted and replaced values are left out, as on the graph. The file has the same columns as Import CSV plus setting, which an import skips, so it can be imported into another program as is. You can also choose Export Data from a program's row menu on the Programs list.