While providing Datability Web training to school districts, I often get asked about trials; What are they? When do you use them? How are they scored? The simple answer is, a trial is one instance of the skill you are trying to teach. For example, if you were trying to teach someone to button their shirt, you could count one button as a trial. Assuming a shirt has 5 buttons, a student buttoning 1 button would be 1/5 trials and could be scored as 20%. But what if the student has mastered buttoning 5 buttons? Now you could count a whole shirt as 1 trial. So essentially, a trial is anything you want it to be as long as it’s defined in the goal. How are you scoring your goals? Leave your comments below and don’t forget to visit www.DatabilityWeb.com.