ABC Data Sheets Editable

About this resource

ABC data, and nothing else. Five layouts of the same sheet, because the sheet that works for a scheduled observation is not the sheet that works while you are teaching: a narrative ABC sheet, a checklist sheet where you tick the codes, a quick sheet you can finish in ten seconds a row, a multi-student sheet, and a summary sheet that turns a week of rows into counts. Type the behavior definition and the code key once, Save As per student, and pen the rows.

WHAT IS INCLUDED - 12 pages, 614 type-in fields

Setup

• How to Take ABC Data - a 6-row chooser that matches the room you are actually standing in to one of the five layouts, the difference between observable words and a judgment, what the codes are for, and the weekly habit that makes the rows worth taking
• How the Type-In Fields Work - one page, so nobody emails you
• Code Key and Behavior Definition - three write-in blocks for the observable definition, the examples and the non-examples, then seven antecedent codes and seven consequence codes, each with a type-in column for what that code means in your room

Five Abc Layouts

• ABC Data Sheet (narrative) - 8 tall rows: date and time, setting, antecedent, behavior in observable words, consequence, length or intensity, codes
• ABC Checklist Data Sheet - 14 rows with the seven antecedent codes and the seven consequence codes as tick columns, three words for the behavior, and a length column
• ABC Data Sheet, Quick - 16 short rows: time, setting code, antecedent code, behavior in three words, consequence code, initials, with a block to write your own setting codes
• ABC Data Sheet, Multi-Student - 12 rows with a student column, for one room, one block or one route where several students are being recorded at once
• ABC Summary Sheet - one behavior, one week: a tally and count cell for each of the seven antecedent codes and each of the seven consequence codes, a 7-column tally of which hour of the day the rows fell in, and three fields for the highest antecedent code, the highest consequence code, and the pair that repeats

Example

• A filled-in week for an invented first grader: eight quick ABC rows, the code counts and hour counts added up from exactly those rows, and a short read of what the counts do and do not say

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. Open it in a PDF reader, click a line, a box or a cell, type, press Tab to move on, and Save As once per student. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT a Google Sheets file, a Google Doc or an Excel workbook, and it does not add up the code columns for you.

It is not a behavior plan and not a functional behavior assessment. The antecedent and consequence codes are for recording what happened before and after a row so that a week can be counted; a tall column is a place to look next week, not an answer. Anything your team has concluded belongs on your team's own paperwork. Nothing here describes a procedure, a label or a timeline.

If you want frequency counts, interval recording, a scatterplot, duration and latency, a point sheet, a tracker and a graph as well, the 22-page Behavior Data Collection Sheets Editable pack contains these two ABC sheets plus all of those.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and case managers asked for ABC data before a meeting, the paraprofessionals who take the rows, behavior specialists and school psychologists who need the same sheet used the same way in every room, and general education teachers asked to record what happens before and after.