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Every evaluation finds weaknesses. Write down the strengths with the same care.

Enter the ability scores and what the student does well in daily life. The summary finds strengths against the mean and against the student’s own average, and keeps the ones daily life confirms.

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The strengths record

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

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What you get

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What you finish with: Normative and personal strengths across seven broad abilities, set beside daily-life evidence and interests, with ways to use them in teaching.
Who it is for: School psychologists, evaluation team members, special education teachers and school counselors.
Format: Browser organizer. One saved record per evaluation; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of scores; 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.

Drawn for this page. A strength the student uses every day is the easiest place to hang new learning.

How to use it

Note why strengths matter for this student and what interests they have.
Enter each ability score as the report prints it, tagged with the broad ability.
Add what the student does well in class, at home and in activities.
Read which strengths daily life confirms, and carry those into the plan.

Start a strengths record

What the organizer does

Two kinds of strength

A normative strength is high compared with other students the same age. A personal strength is high compared with the student’s own other abilities, and can sit inside the average range. Both can anchor teaching.

Handle personal strengths with care

Differences between abilities inside one profile are less reliable than the composite scores, and research cautions against reading too much into them. The organizer keeps a personal strength only as a hypothesis until daily-life evidence backs it.

What it is not

It holds no norms and makes no diagnosis. Ways to use strengths are ideas for the team to weigh.

Sources

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.324(a)(1)(i): the IEP team considers the strengths of the child.
McGrew, K. S., and Wendling, B. J. (2010). Cattell-Horn-Carroll cognitive-achievement relations: what we have learned from the past 20 years of research. Psychology in the Schools, 47(7), 651–675.
McDermott, P. A., Fantuzzo, J. W., and Glutting, J. J. (1990). Just say no to subtest analysis: a critique on Wechsler theory and practice. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 8(3), 290–302.
Jimerson, S. R., Sharkey, J. D., Nyborg, V., and Furlong, M. J. (2004). Strength-based assessment and school psychology. The California School Psychologist, 9, 9–19.

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