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.
Benefits of using the MAS:
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Allows you to respond effectively to behavior
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Quickly assesses motivation, i.e., the function of a problem behavior
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Improves positive behavioral interventions
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The MAS is research-based, tested, and validated
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Can easily be administered in educational and institutional settings
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Has been used by psychologists and teachers since 1988
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.