Teaching · For Tutors

Measure the starting point so progress has something to show.

Give a few short checks, one skill each, and record the scores. Add the student’s confidence and two or three first goals. The summary orders the skills from lowest, names where to start and sets the date to check again.

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The baseline

One record per student and date. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

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

What you finish with: For each student, starting percents on each skill, the starting points, first goals with a recheck date, and the student’s own view.
Who it is for: Tutors starting with a new student in any subject, who want a clear starting point to show progress against.
Format: Browser form. Save a new baseline at each recheck so the records compare; printed for the family or as a blank sheet; CSV with one row per baseline or the checks table; 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 Tutoring business kit ($69) 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 Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. A clear starting point makes progress visible six weeks later.

How to use it

Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the date.
Give short checks, one skill each, and record score and possible score.
Note the latest school grade and the student’s confidence.
Set one to three goals from the starting points.
Check again on the date the summary gives, in a new record.

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What the organizer is for

Short checks, one skill each

A ten-item quiz on one skill tells you more than a long mixed test. Use the same kind of check at the recheck so the two numbers mean the same thing.

Confidence counts

Students who expect to fail often stop trying early. Starting with a skill just within reach, and showing the improvement on paper, builds the confidence that keeps them working.

What this is not

It is not a standardized test and gives no grade level or percentile. It records your own checks so you and the family can see change.

Sources

Hattie, J., and Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 81 to 112.
Fuchs, L. S., and Fuchs, D. (1986). Effects of systematic formative evaluation: a meta-analysis. Exceptional Children, 53(3), 199 to 208.
National Center on Intensive Intervention: progress monitoring and setting goals from a baseline.
Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191 to 215.

The example student is made up. Checks are the tutor’s own; they are not standardized and give no grade levels. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.