Teaching · Speech & Language

What the teacher sees, lesson after lesson.

Enter the scale scores and how often the teacher sees each classroom behavior. The summary reads the scores, sorts the behaviors from never to almost always and tells you how much weight the ratings can carry.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Speech & Language toolkit, $79 for 81 items.

The rating organizer

One record per student and teacher rating. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with: The teacher’s scores read in their direction of concern, the classroom behaviors grouped by how often they are seen, the teacher’s example, and the checks on how much the ratings can carry.
Who it is for: School speech-language pathologists and evaluation teams collecting teacher input, and the teachers who complete the scales.
Format: Browser organizer. One saved record per student and rating; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the score rows; 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 Speech & Language 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 Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. A teacher rating shows how the student communicates across real lessons, which a test session cannot.

How to use it

Start a record with a code or initials and the date the teacher finished the form.
Note the class and how long and how often the teacher sees the student.
Enter the scale scores from the scored form, with whether lower or higher is the concern.
Ask the teacher how often they see each classroom behavior, and for one example in their words.
Compare with your testing and observe in class where they differ.

Start a rating record

Reading a teacher rating

Why teacher ratings

Teachers see a student communicate across many lessons, subjects and groupings. Their ratings show whether a difficulty affects learning in class, which is central to a school evaluation.

What it is not

One teacher’s ratings are one source. The organizer applies no cutoff and does not decide eligibility; the team weighs the ratings with testing, observation and family input.

When to ask again

A teacher who has known the student for a few weeks, or sees them once a week, has less to go on. A second rating later in the term, or from another teacher, steadies the picture.

Sources

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.305(a)(1): evaluation data include current classroom-based observations and observations by teachers.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Roles and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists in Schools (professional issues statement), 2010.
De Los Reyes, A., et al. (2015). The validity of the multi-informant approach to assessing child and adolescent mental health. Psychological Bulletin, 141(4), 858 to 900: why informants differ.
American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education. Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, 2014.

The example student, teacher and scores are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.