Teaching · Special Education

Every score from the battery, on one curve, with its caveats.

Type each composite, index and subtest as the report gives it. The summary puts each one in SD and percentile terms, shows which fall more than 1 SD below the mean, measures the spread between indexes and lists what weakens the results.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The results organizer

One record per student and testing date. The example scores are made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A one-page layout of the battery’s scores with their intervals, distance from the mean, approximate percentiles, the index spread and the validity and language flags, ready for the team meeting.
Who it is for
School psychologists and diagnosticians writing the report, and special education teachers and team members preparing to discuss it.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per student and date; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the score rows; 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 Special Education 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 Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
three kinds of task, one curve
Drawn for this page. A battery samples different kinds of thinking; the organizer keeps each score in its place on the same curve.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with a code or initials and the testing date.
  2. Copy each score from the score summary page, choosing its score type so the right mean and SD are used.
  3. Add the confidence interval the report gives, if it gives one.
  4. Mark the validity checklist from your session notes.
  5. Add what teachers see in class, then print the summary for the meeting.

Start a results record

What the organizer does with the scores

How the numbers work

Standard scores have a mean of 100 and an SD of 15; scaled scores 10 and 3; T scores 50 and 10. The organizer divides the distance from the mean by the SD and reads the normal curve for an approximate percentile. Tests publish their own percentile tables, and those win.

What it is not

It does not classify the student, apply a cutoff or decide eligibility. Descriptive labels such as low average differ between publishers; use the ones in the test manual.

Why the spread matters

When index scores differ widely, an overall score can hide the pattern that explains the student’s difficulty. Manuals give guidance on when the overall score is still a fair summary.

Sources

  1. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education. Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, 2014.
  2. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.304: evaluation procedures, including assessments in the language most likely to yield accurate information.
  3. Sattler, J. M. Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations and Applications (6th ed.), 2018: standard score metrics and confidence intervals.
  4. Flanagan, D. P., and Kaufman, A. S. Essentials of WISC-V Assessment (2nd ed.). Wiley, 2017: interpreting index-level variability.

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