BOSS™ - Behavioral Observation of Students in Schools™

A great tool with one glitch You cant turn off the sound that informs you to observe a peer and rate teacher On a IPad it overrides the volume even when you have it turned off Can be very distracting to the observation If this was fixed would raise the score to a 5           BOSSBehavioral observation of Students

Great assessment but the app is lacking in flexibility and could be more user friendly Please allow a setting that offers the assessor to view the abbreviations for added behavior observations under the template link Also the link for new observation could stand to be larger There should be a main screen with all of the options such as start new review past observations add new behavior observations Also the language should be more plain Please make changes so that the app can be more easily navigated and flexible Thanks        Great Assessment

You are not able to turn the sound completely off and the app dings every 15 seconds which is very distracting to the students in the classroom Please change this so that it vibrates only           Alerts should be vibrating with no sound

I have used BOSS for years and am very excited about the launch of this app I have been using the app for a few weeks now and would like to report a problem but have not been able to find a support link On the PDF reports it is not displaying the Offtask behavior percentages and totals int he first section of the report It is showing the AE and PE percentages but not OT              Please fix PDF report

A much needed improvement would be a three second difference between the vibration in the end of an interval This lapse gives an observer a cue that the opportunity for the momentary observation to be made AET PET is coming to an end What this would allow the observer is the freedom to keep their eyes on the observed student or peer instead of having to repeatedly glance towards the mobile device to watch the timer This would significantly help by improving the accuracy and validity of the results The only other thing that deserves to be mentioned in this review is the fact that other apps that measure the same thing as this one are more realistically priced 999 seems to be a better price especially when one remembers that a good majority of those people using an app such as this are employees of the public school system Its no secret to those same professionals that Pearson is doing just fine with regard to their financial wellbeing from numerous other assessments that are also being widely used within the public school system           Timing is everything