Teaching · For Teachers

Write down what went wrong, while you still remember.

Add each incident with the cases it touched and how it was handled. The log totals the damage, shows what is unresolved and drafts the honest sentence for your report.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the For Teachers toolkit, $79 for 72 items.

The error log

One log per measure and window. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Incidents and cases affected by kind, unresolved incidents, and a methods-section sentence.
Who it is for
Teacher-researchers, assessment coordinators, district evaluators and graduate students.
Format
Browser form. One saved log per measure; printed for the data file or as a blank log; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$19 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 For Teachers toolkit ($79) 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 For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
write it down the day it happens
Drawn for this page. Every dataset has incidents; a study is trustworthy when they are recorded and handled openly.

How to use it

  1. Start a log when the testing window opens.
  2. Add each incident the day it happens.
  3. Count the cases it affected.
  4. Decide what to do about each before analysis.
  5. Paste the methods sentence into your report.

Start a log

Using the log

Why document

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing ask that departures from standard procedures be documented and their effect on scores considered. A log made at the time is far more credible than a memory at analysis.

Flag, then decide

Flagging affected cases keeps options open: analyse with and without them and report both when it matters.

What this is not

A record of individual student scores.

Sources

  1. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, chapters 4 and 6.
  2. National Center for Education Statistics (2012). NCES Statistical Standards: standards on data collection and processing.
  3. What Works Clearinghouse (2022). Procedures and Standards Handbook, Version 5.0: attrition and data quality.
  4. Allen, M. J., & Yen, W. M. (2002). Introduction to Measurement Theory. Waveland.

The example measure and incidents are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.