A test score never tells the whole story.
After completing the mastermind, this educator found herself asking different questions in an eligibility meeting. The student was an English language learner who had been given cognitive assessments, and she was concerned about how someone might interpret the resulting scores without paying attention to the student’s language background and the evaluator’s cautions.
Numbers can look definitive on paper. But evaluation data has to be interpreted in context, including factors such as language and the limitations of the assessment.
Eligibility and placement decisions are too important to be made by glancing at a score. Read the evaluation. Ask questions. Understand what the data actually means for this student.
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After completing the mastermind, this educator found herself asking different questions in an eligibility meeting. The student was an English language learner who had been given cognitive assessments, and she was concerned about how someone might interpret the resulting scores without paying attention to the student’s language background and the evaluator’s cautions.
Numbers can look definitive on paper. But evaluation data has to be interpreted in context, including factors such as language and the limitations of the assessment.
Eligibility and placement decisions are too important to be made by glancing at a score. Read the evaluation. Ask questions. Understand what the data actually means for this student.
#SpecialEducationBoss #SpecialEducation #IEPEvaluation #EligibilityMeeting #EnglishLanguageLearners #MultilingualLearners #IEPAdvocacy #StudentData #SpecialEducationAcademy