Teaching · Speech & Language

Catch the clerical errors before the scores reach the report.

Enter the birth date and work down the protocol. The page computes chronological age and lists every step you have not yet checked.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Speech & Language toolkit, $79 for 81 items.

The protocol check

One record per protocol; the record date is the test date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Chronological age and a list of protocol steps still open, with notes for the report and for supervision.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists, clinical fellows, graduate student clinicians and their supervisors.
Format
Browser checker. One saved record per protocol; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 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 Speech & Language toolkit ($79) 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 Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
checked before it is reported
Drawn for this page. Most scoring errors are clerical: a missed basal credit, the wrong age band, a number copied wrong.

How to use it

  1. Set the record date to the test date and enter the birth date.
  2. Compare the computed age with yours, using the manual’s rule for days.
  3. Work down the protocol with the manual open, ticking each step only after you check it.
  4. Write any deviation on the protocol itself, not only in your notes.
  5. Have a second person check protocols scored by a fellow or student.

Check a protocol

What the checker covers

Why check

Studies of test protocols, including those scored by experienced examiners, find frequent clerical errors: basal and ceiling mistakes, wrong age calculations and addition errors. Each one can change a converted score.

Age

Chronological age here is exact calendar time from birth to test date. Test manuals differ on whether and how to round days, so use the computed age as a check on your own, then follow the manual.

What it is not

The checker does not score the test, look up norms or interpret results. It confirms the protocol is complete and correct before you do.

Sources

  1. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education. Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (2014): standardized administration and scoring.
  2. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Code of Ethics (2023) and the Practice Portal on assessment.
  3. Ramos, E., Alfonso, V. C., and Schermerhorn, S. M. (2009). Graduate students’ administration and scoring errors on the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities. Psychology in the Schools, 46(7), 650–657.
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(1)(iii) and (iv): assessments administered by trained personnel in accordance with the producer’s instructions.

The example protocol is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.