Teaching · Related Services

Watch who starts the conversation.

Tap each social behavior as it happens for the student and a classmate in the same setting. The organizer turns the counts into rates and says plainly where the student differs.

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The observation

One observation per student, setting and date. 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
Rates per 10 minutes for the student and a peer, the share of exchanges the student started, and the differences that matter.
Who it is for
School psychologists, counselors, special education teachers and speech-language pathologists.
Format
Browser form with tap counters. One saved observation per student and date; printed with the summary or as a blank tally sheet; 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.
close to the group, not yet in it
Drawn for this page. Counting who starts the exchanges shows more than whether the student is with others.

How to use it

  1. Pick a setting where the concern shows and a classmate of the same age.
  2. Enter the minutes.
  3. Tap each behavior for the student, and for the peer in alternating minutes.
  4. Add what happened around the counts.
  5. Observe at least twice before planning.

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Reading the counts

Why a peer

Recess with no adult structure looks very different from group work. A classmate in the same setting at the same time shows what is expected there better than any general standard.

Who starts

A student who answers when spoken to but rarely starts an exchange needs different teaching from one who starts many that do not last. The share of exchanges started separates the two.

What this is not

A standardized rating scale. It records events from one observation.

Sources

  1. Hintze, J. M., Volpe, R. J., & Shapiro, E. S. (2008). Best practices in the systematic direct observation of student behavior. In Best Practices in School Psychology V. NASP.
  2. Volpe, R. J., DiPerna, J. C., Hintze, J. M., & Shapiro, E. S. (2005). Observing students in classroom settings: A review of seven coding schemes. School Psychology Review, 34(4), 454–474.
  3. Kasari, C., Rotheram-Fuller, E., Locke, J., & Gulsrud, A. (2012). Making the connection: Randomized controlled trial of social skills at school for children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53(4), 431–439.
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.310: observation of the child in the learning environment.

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