What is School AMPS?

The School Version of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (School AMPS) was developed in response to the need for a valid, reliable, and clinically useful evaluation tool for measuring student's quality of schoolwork task performance in typical classroom settings. The School AMPS is a naturalistic, observation-based assessment conducted in the context of a student's natural classroom setting, during his/her typical routine, while the student performs schoolwork tasks assigned by the teacher. Other than the unobtrusive presence of the occupational therapist who observes the student performing schoolwork tasks, an important feature of the School AMPS is that no disruption of the normal classroom routine occurs during its administration.

What is the quality of this student's schoolwork task performance?
How does the quality of this student's task performance compare with that of his/her same-age peers?
Which school motor and/or school process skills are most impacting this student's occupational performance in the classroom?
What intervention strategies will have the most impact on this student's performance in the classroom?
Was there a change in this student's quality of schoolwork task performance since the last School AMPS evaluation?

In its broadest conceptualization, the School AMPS offers a systematic and thorough way of examining the transaction between a student, a schoolwork task, and a classroom environment, and evaluating the quality of the student's schoolwork task performance, measured at the level of complex activity and participation, not body functions. The School AMPS offers a new way of thinking about and describing how a student performs needed schoolwork tasks given the constraints of those schoolwork tasks and the physical and social school environment.

This page was last modified on 27 November 2011

What is School AMPS?

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