Teaching · Related Services

Plan the battery from the question, not from habit.

Tick the abilities the referral question points to and list the tasks you plan to give. The summary shows which abilities are covered twice, which are thin, and how long it will all take.

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The battery plan

One plan per student evaluation, dated for the first session. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A battery checked against the question: abilities with two or more tasks, thin or missing ones, time and sessions, and language load.
Who it is for
School psychologists, educational diagnosticians and evaluation team members.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved plan per evaluation; printed with its summary or as a blank planning sheet; CSV of tasks; 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 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.
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Drawn for this page. Two different tasks for each ability the question needs, before any of it is interpreted.

How to use it

  1. Write the referral question and tick the abilities it points to.
  2. Note the language of testing and the longest session the student can manage.
  3. Add each task with the ability the manual says it measures, its language demand and minutes.
  4. Fill the thin abilities, cut tasks with no question behind them, and print the plan.

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What the organizer does

Two tasks per ability

Cross-battery practice asks for at least two qualitatively different tasks for each broad ability you plan to interpret: one subtest can be thrown by a single bad moment or an unusual item type. The plan flags the abilities that rest on one task.

Start from the question

IDEA asks for tools that give relevant information to help determine the student’s educational needs. Tasks with no question behind them cost the student time and attention that the thin abilities need.

What it is not

It holds no test content, norms or classifications of which subtest measures what; use the manuals you are trained on.

Sources

  1. Flanagan, D. P., Ortiz, S. O., and Alfonso, V. C. (2013). Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment (3rd ed.). Wiley.
  2. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.304(b)(1) and (c)(6) and (c)(7): relevant information, assessment in every domain related to the suspected disability, tools that directly help determine educational needs.
  3. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(1)(ii): assessments in the language and form most likely to yield accurate information.
  4. Schneider, W. J., and McGrew, K. S. (2018). The Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities. In Contemporary Intellectual Assessment (4th ed.). Guilford.

The example student and plan are made up; subtest names are generic. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.