GAINS® vs SchoolBehaviour

Guiding Technologies, a spin-off of Temple University, is building technology to convert expertise into expert guidance. GAINS® (Guidance, Assessment, and Information System), which runs on tablets and phones, is powered by expert guiding software that uniquely incorporates knowledge of techniques used in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy, Speech Language Therapy (SLT), and Occupational Therapy (OT). GAINS assists instructors and caregivers to help mitigate developmental challenges due to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), intellectual disabilities (ID), and neuro-related disabilities such as speech loss due to strokes. While GAINS® reduces the burdens of data collection and automates report generation, it is not merely a data collection app. Like Google Maps that guides you step-by-step and updates as you go along, GAINS® guides instructors and caregivers to provide quality instruction and adapts to the learner’s progress on the fly.

This app is designed to collect data on school task engagement for research purposes. The app allows up to six participants to be entered for each observer. A stopwatch is provided on the UI to allow easy time management for the momentary assessment. The user can decide their own observation interval, and record the type of learning task the participant is involved in and their behaviour. Each time 'record' is pressed, the data is saved locally as a json file and a csv file." Using the 'colour' choice on the start-up screen, a group of researchers can easily split a full class of participants between them by allocating participants to colour-based groups.