Teaching · Related Services

Sound reasoning, small vocabulary? Keep the two apart.

Enter the verbal scores the way the report gives them. The summary puts them on one scale, separates word knowledge from reasoning with words, and keeps language background in view.

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The findings 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
Every verbal reasoning score on one yardstick, grouped by part, set beside the classroom evidence and language background, with flags for the write-up and supports to discuss.
Who it is for
School psychologists, educational diagnosticians, speech-language pathologists and evaluation team members.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per evaluation; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of scores; 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.
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Drawn for this page. Seeing what two things share is reasoning; knowing the words for them is vocabulary.

How to use it

  1. Write the team’s question and the student’s language background.
  2. Enter each score as the report prints it, with its metric and interval.
  3. Tag vocabulary tasks apart from similarities, comprehension and inference tasks.
  4. Add classroom evidence for the same skills.
  5. Read the flags before you write the report.

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What the organizer does

Words and reasoning

Most verbal reasoning tasks need words to show the reasoning. A student can see exactly how two ideas are alike and still lack the word the scoring wants. Splitting vocabulary from similarities and inference tasks shows which one is low.

Language background

For a student learning the language of testing, or living in two languages, verbal scores measure language exposure as well as reasoning. IDEA asks that assessments be given in the form most likely to yield accurate information.

What it is not

It holds no norms, gives no descriptive labels and decides no eligibility or diagnosis. Supports listed are ideas for the team to weigh.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(1): assessments selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis, and in the language and form most likely to yield accurate information.
  2. Bialystok, E., Luk, G., Peets, K. F., and Yang, S. (2010). Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13(4), 525–531.
  3. Beck, I. L., McKeown, M. G., and Kucan, L. (2013). Bringing Words to Life (2nd ed.). Guilford.
  4. Sattler, J. M. (2018). Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations and Applications (6th ed.): standard score metrics and confidence intervals.

The example student and scores are made up; subtest names are generic. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.