The Motivation Assessment Scale

About the Motivation Assessment Scale

 

The Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS) is designed to help with a language impaired person’s problem behaviors. An understanding of a 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, respect, and helping a person successfully negotiate their environment.

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Benefits of using the MAS:

• Allows you to respond effectively to behavior

• Quickly assesses motivation, i.e., the function of a problem behavior

• Improves positive behavioral interventions

• The MAS is research-based, tested, and validated

• Can easily be administered in educational and institutional settings

• Has been used by psychologists and teachers since 1988

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​Why Motivation Assessment Scale Software?​​

 

For best results, the authors recommend administering several scales (to multiple raters and/or in multiple settings) to evaluate a single problem behavior. Software versions of the MAS provide quick professional assistance in combining and analyzing scale results, assistance in creating reports, a convenient way to store data, and other features.​

From the MAS Administration Guide: Why do we need the MAS?

 

Frequently Asked Questions

 

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