Teaching · Special Education

Choose the practice with evidence that fits your students.

Add each practice you are weighing, rate it from its source on the ESSA evidence tiers, and mark whether the research matches your students and whether you can do it. The summary ranks them and flags weak sources.

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The practice review

One review per skill and group of students. Ratings are the ones you enter. The example is made up.

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What you get

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

What you finish with
The practices ranked by evidence, match and feasibility, the weak or mismatched evidence to watch, and the fidelity and data plans still needed.
Who it is for
Special education teachers, instructional leaders, special education teams and intervention specialists.
Format
Browser form. One saved review per skill and date; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the practices; 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.
read the evidence, then decide
Drawn for this page. The practice with the strongest research is not always the best fit; match and feasibility matter too.

How to use it

  1. Start a review with a short code and the date.
  2. Name the skill and the students it is for.
  3. Look each practice up in a clearinghouse or review and enter its tier.
  4. Mark whether the research matches your students and whether you can do it.
  5. Plan fidelity checks and progress data, then choose.

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How to rate a practice

The evidence tiers

The Every Student Succeeds Act defines four tiers: strong (a well-run randomized study), moderate (a well-run quasi-experimental study), promising (a correlational study with controls) and demonstrates a rationale.

Match and fidelity

A practice works for students like the ones studied, delivered the way it was studied. Check both before you count on the rating, and keep checking once it starts.

What it is not

No ratings are built in and no practice is recommended. Read the review or study itself; the IEP team decides what a student receives.

Sources

  1. Every Student Succeeds Act, section 8101(21): the definition of evidence-based, with four tiers.
  2. U.S. Department of Education. Non-Regulatory Guidance: Using Evidence to Strengthen Education Investments, ed.gov.
  3. Institute of Education Sciences. What Works Clearinghouse, ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc.
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.320(a)(4): services based on peer-reviewed research to the extent practicable.
  5. National Center on Intensive Intervention, intensiveintervention.org; the IRIS Center, iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu.

The example practices and ratings are made up and do not describe real products or reviews. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.