Student behavioral observation methods and techniques are a simple and effective way to gather insightful data on students. The SOTO App is an excellent tool to help you perform “On-Task / Off-Task” observations.
The SOTO App provides a simple, intuitive tool that makes behavioral observation * fast and easy * for everyone. We hope this app helps save you time and effort with accurate data collection and reporting.
Instead of paper, pen and a clock, the SOTO App captures and collects your observation data through simple “checkboxes”. It also automatically maintains timed intervals for you throughout your observation.
Simply indicate if a student is “On-Task” by selecting “Academically or Passively Engaged. Otherwise, the student is “Off-Task” for that interval. You can also record specific “Off-Task” observations of a student, whether there are: Off-Task Motor, Off-Task Verbal and/or Off-Task Passive.
After performing an observation session, you can quickly generate a report, which calculates percentage statistics from your data, as well as graph and chart images that help effectively communicate your data visually. Having graphs and charts are worth a thousand words. Easily show parents and teachers their student’s time on-task compared to their peers.
The benefits of using the SOTO App:
* Be ready to conduct On-Task Observations anytime, anywhere
* No need for a clock, watch or timer
* No fussing with paper and pencils
* Calculates percentages and creates graphs / charts
* Email report data and graphs to yourself, so you can include them in your reports
* Customize settings for how you perform observations:
1) how long each observation interval should last
2) how often to record Peer intervals for comparison
3) turn “vibrate” notification on before each new interval begins (this requires an iPhone for its vibrate capability)
This is a great app for looking at academic engagement and off task behaviors. It provides quick objective data that's easy to understand for all audiences. I love that the data is stored on my iPhone and quickly generated on the spot. I've been looking for an affordable app like this one for a while. It does everything it promises. I'm looking forward to the update; I'm hoping that the behavioral categories can be customizable and/or that Teacher Directed Instruction can be included as well to quantify the instructional environment. All in all a very user-friendly and powerful app.
Simple behavior observation software
elissabc
This software measures on task and off task behavior just like the old BOSS, which is no longer available. It generates nice graphs and sends easily identifiable files to your computer. If you are looking to measure on-task/ off-task behavior with a periodic peer observation, this is the software for you.
School Psycho
DrMary2
I have to say the ease of use and immediate graphing, the ability to observe a peer, and the color change when time to observe the peer are great. So much better than paper and pencil BOSS's. kind of expensive though. I also wish there was a way to add additional notes in the program after the observation.
Needs fixed for iOS 8
EmilyAnne28
I really enjoyed using this app until I updated to iOS 8. Since then, the app no longer lets me enter in information about the student, nor does it allow me to hit the start button to begin recording. Therefore, the app is useless until that is fixed. Hopefully this will be updated very soon!!
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Fixed a bug that caused SOTO to take quite a long time to open. With this new version, it only takes a few seconds for SOTO to load.
Version 1.2.4
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Information
Seller
Jack Calo
Size
7.2 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
