Teaching · Speech & Language

One article, one page, and an honest bottom line.

Write the clinical question, mark the design and appraise the study point by point. The summary places it on an evidence ladder, separates strengths from concerns and keeps your bottom line for practice.

Summarize an articleWhat you get
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The research summary

One record per article. Use a short article code. The example study is made up for practice.

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What you get

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

What you finish with
A one-page summary per article with the question, design level, appraisal, applicability and a bottom line you can share with colleagues or a supervisee.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists, clinical fellows and their supervisors, and graduate clinicians reading research for practice.
Format
Browser form. A saved library of summaries; printed one page per article or as a blank appraisal sheet; CSV of all summaries; 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.
read it, weigh it, use it
Drawn for this page. A short, honest summary of one article: the question, how strong the design is, and what it means for your students.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with a short article code and the date you read it.
  2. Paste the citation and choose the design.
  3. Write the question as population, intervention, comparison and outcome.
  4. Mark each appraisal point and how well it fits your students.
  5. Write a bottom line you would act on.

Summarize an article

What the summary is for

Evidence-based practice

Evidence-based practice combines the best available research with clinical expertise and the client’s and family’s values. A summary like this handles the first part honestly, so the other two can be weighed alongside it.

The ladder is a starting point

Designs differ in how well they rule out other explanations, which is what the ladder reflects. A well-run single-case study can tell you more about a student like yours than a weak group study, so the appraisal points matter as much as the step.

What this is not

It does not grade studies for you or replace reading the full article. It keeps your reading organized and easy to share.

Sources

  1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): the three components and the steps of the EBP process.
  2. Sackett, D. L., Rosenberg, W. M. C., Gray, J. A. M., Haynes, R. B., and Richardson, W. S. (1996). Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t. BMJ, 312(7023), 71 to 72.
  3. Dollaghan, C. A. (2007). The Handbook for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders. Paul H. Brookes.
  4. Kratochwill, T. R., et al. (2010). Single-case designs technical documentation. What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education.

The example study and its citation are made up for practice. Summaries record your reading; read the full article before changing practice. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.