Teaching · Related Services

See how a student learns, not only what they know.

Test, teach briefly, test again. Record the scores, the teaching and how the student responded, and the organizer works out the gain and describes the response for the team.

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The dynamic assessment organizer

One record per skill and student, under a student code. The ratings are written for this page. 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
For each student and skill, the gain from pretest to posttest, ratings of response to teaching and a described pattern to weigh with the rest of the evaluation.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists, school psychologists and bilingual evaluation teams assessing students from diverse language backgrounds.
Format
Browser organizer filled in across the test, teaching and retest. One saved record per student and skill; printed with the 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 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.
what a student learns when taught
Drawn for this page. The gap between the two bars, and how easily it closed, says more than either score alone.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student code and the pretest date.
  2. Name the skill, the task and the points possible.
  3. Give the pretest and enter the score.
  4. Teach in short sessions and note what you mediated; rate the response.
  5. Give the posttest and read the summary with the team.

Plan an assessment

What the organizer is for

Why dynamic assessment

A single score shows what a student knows, which reflects their experience. Dynamic assessment adds brief teaching and looks at how readily the student learns. Students with a language difference tend to learn quickly once taught; students with a language disorder tend to need much more support for smaller gains.

Cut points

The strong, partial and limited labels use cut points stated on this page so a team applies them the same way each time. They are not norms. Published dynamic assessment procedures have their own scoring; follow those when you use one.

What this is not

One source of evidence. It does not diagnose and does not replace a full evaluation in the student’s languages.

Sources

  1. Peña, E. D., Gillam, R. B., and Bedore, L. M. (2014), Dynamic assessment of narrative ability in English accurately identifies language impairment in English language learners, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 57(6).
  2. Gutiérrez-Clellen, V. F., and Peña, E. (2001), Dynamic assessment of diverse children: a tutorial, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 32(4).
  3. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Practice Portal: Bilingual Service Delivery and Cultural Responsiveness.
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(1) (assessments in the form most likely to yield accurate information) and 300.306(b).

The example student and scores are made up. Ratings are original to this page; the labels are not norms. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.