Teaching · Related Services

Before a low score counts, weigh what the test asked of this student.

Describe the student, then rate each measure for language, culture, norms and how it was given. The summary scores each measure’s risk and checks whether the scores simply track the load.

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The bias risk review

One record per student battery, dated. The example is made up.

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What you finish with: A risk rating for each measure in one student’s battery, a check on whether scores track language and cultural load, and the safeguards still missing.
Who it is for: School psychologists, speech-language pathologists, educational diagnosticians and evaluation team members.
Format: Browser checklist with ratings. One saved record per battery; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the measures; export and import a file.
Access: $5 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 Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. Two scores from one student can differ because the tasks carry different loads of language and culture, not because the student does.

How to use it

Choose the student’s language and background; they decide how much load matters.
Add each measure and rate language demand and cultural loading from the manual and published classifications.
Rate how well the norms include students like this one, and whether you changed the administration.
Enter the standard scores you have.
Read the pattern note and close missing safeguards before you write.

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How the review works

How risk is scored

Language demand and cultural loading each add 0 to 2 points, but only where the student’s profile makes them matter: in full for a student learning English or from a background unlike the norm sample, half for language when the student is fluent and bilingual. Norms that do not include students like this one add up to 2, and changed administration adds 2. Four points or more is high risk, two or three moderate.

The pattern across loads

Researchers in nondiscriminatory assessment note that when scores fall steadily as language and cultural demands rise, the pattern fits difference in language and experience more than a disability. The page compares the average on low-load and high-load measures to show that pattern.

What it is not

The points are a structured way to record the team’s judgment, not a published scale, and they decide no eligibility. They make plain which scores can bear weight for this student.

Sources

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(1)(i): assessments selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis.
American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, chapter 3: fairness in testing.
Flanagan, D. P., Ortiz, S. O., and Alfonso, V. C. (2013). Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment (3rd ed.). Wiley: classifying tests by cultural loading and linguistic demand.
Rhodes, R. L., Ochoa, S. H., and Ortiz, S. O. (2005). Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: A Practical Guide. Guilford.

The example student, measures and scores are made up; measure names are generic. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.