Teaching · Special Education

Home and school ratings, side by side, gaps flagged.

Enter each respondent’s composite and domain scores and mark the everyday skills you see at school. The summary sets each score on the curve, lines up respondents on the same domain and points out the gaps worth asking about.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the New special education teacher kit, $39 for 34 items.

The adaptive behavior organizer

One record per student and rating period. The example scores are made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Scores grouped by respondent with distance from the mean and approximate percentiles, the respondent gaps of 1 SD or more, the school skills that need help, and the checks to make before the meeting.
Who it is for
School psychologists, diagnosticians and special education teams collecting adaptive behavior data for an evaluation or reevaluation.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per student and rating period; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the score rows; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the New special education teacher kit ($39) and the Special Education toolkit ($99), and 2 more bundles. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
homeschool
Drawn for this page. Adaptive behavior is what a student does day to day, so it is rated by people who see the student in different places.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with a code or initials and the date the ratings were done.
  2. Mark who responded and whether each could read the form well.
  3. Enter each respondent’s composite and domain scores, using the same domain names for each so they line up.
  4. Mark the school skills from what you have seen in the last few weeks.
  5. Before the meeting, ask each respondent for examples where their ratings differ.

Start a data record

Reading adaptive behavior data

What adaptive behavior measures

The conceptual, social and practical skills a person actually uses in daily life, as reported by people who know them. It describes typical performance, not what the student can do on a good day.

Why respondents differ

Home and school make different demands, and respondents see different hours of the day. A gap is information about settings, not proof that one respondent is wrong.

What it is not

It applies no cutoff and does not identify an intellectual disability or any other category. Classification uses the full evaluation and the criteria the team is bound by.

Sources

  1. Schalock, R. L., Luckasson, R., and Tassé, M. J. Intellectual Disability: Definition, Diagnosis, Classification, and Systems of Supports (12th ed.). AAIDD, 2021.
  2. Tassé, M. J., et al. (2012). The construct of adaptive behavior: its conceptualization, measurement, and use in the field of intellectual disability. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 117(4), 291 to 303.
  3. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.304: a variety of assessment tools, including information provided by the parent.
  4. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education. Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, 2014.

The example student and every score are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.