Teaching · Related Services

Put the impact in days, hours and assignments.

Enter attendance and time out of class, then each part of school affected, with data. The summary does the arithmetic and ties each impact back to a finding.

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The impact record

One record per student evaluation, dated. 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
Attendance rate, hours out of class, and a list of educational impacts with data and the findings they follow from.
Who it is for
School psychologists, counselors, social workers and evaluation team members.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per evaluation; printed with its 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.
the days and hours it costs
Drawn for this page. Educational impact is easiest to see in days missed and hours out of class.

How to use it

  1. Take attendance from the school’s record, all absences for any reason.
  2. Count each kind of time out of class from logs: nurse, office, referrals.
  3. For each impact, write the data: a percent, a count, a comparison with last year or with classmates.
  4. Tie each impact to the finding it follows from.
  5. Use none found honestly; it matters as much as an impact.

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What the organizer covers

Why impact

Under IDEA, a disability category is not enough on its own: the condition has to adversely affect educational performance, and the student has to need special education. Data on attendance, time out of class and work is how a team shows that.

Chronic absence

Missing 10 percent or more of school days, for any reason, is the definition of chronic absence most attendance researchers and many states use. The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights data counts 15 or more days missed.

What it is not

The record does not decide eligibility or a category. The team decides that under 34 CFR 300.306, using all the evaluation data.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.8(a) and (c)(4) (adverse effect on educational performance) and 300.306 (determination of eligibility).
  2. U.S. Department of Education. Chronic Absenteeism in the Nation’s Schools (2016 and updates): missing 15 or more days, or 10 percent of days.
  3. Attendance Works. Chronic absence: missing 10 percent or more of school days for any reason.
  4. National Association of School Psychologists. Best Practices in School Psychology (2014): chapters on data-based decision making.

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