Writing Your Evaluation

Cortney Steffens

Table of Contents• General Information• Background Information• Interview Questions• Information Obtained from Interviews• Informal Assessments• Formal Assessments• Recommendations• Appendix

General Information• Student name• DOB• Age• Grade• Evaluator• Dates of Evaluation

General Information (continued) Joey is a 8.5 year-old boy who is in third grade

at a local public school. Joey’s primary language is English. His medical history reports no significant problems and all milestones were achieved within a normal time frame. He has attended the same school since kindergarten and has not repeated any grades.

• Continue with school history• Testing Environment• General observations of behavior during

sessions

Interviews• Questions asked of the student– Numbered list

• Questions asked of the parent– Numbered list

• Information obtained from interviews– Responses written in paragraph form

Informal AssessmentsName of Assessment

Dates of Evaluation:Chronological Age:Administration: # of sessions and duration• Summary of assessment – Purpose, sections• Testing conditions- Testing was completed in two 45 minute

sessions. After 20 minutes Joey appeared to be tired and he received a 5 minute break before testing resumed. There were minimal distractions during the session…

• Results – In a chart – In paragraph form

Examples of IA• Roswell-Chall Auditory Blending Test• Developmental Reading Assessment

2• Fountas and Pinnell Reading

Assessment• Multiple Intelligences Survey

Formal AssessmentsName of Assessment

Dates of Evaluation:Chronological Age:Administration: # of sessions and duration• Summary of assessment – Purpose, sections• Testing conditions- Testing was completed in two 45 minute

sessions. After 20 minutes Joey appeared to be tired and he received a 5 minute break before testing resumed. There were minimal distractions during the session…

• Results – In a chart (raw scores, percentiles, age equivalents, standard

score)– In paragraph form

Examples of FA• Beery Developmental Test of Visual-

Motor Integration• PAL-RW• Test of Reading Comprehension• Test of Written Language

Recommendations• Based on Interviews• Based on observations- if appropriate• Each Informal Assessment- can be

separated by test or synthesized• Each Formal Assessment- can be

separated by test or synthesized

Appendix• Student’s work samples• Copies of testing response and

scoring booklets used

Additional Comments• You do not have to cite the

assessments in APA but if your recommendations mention that are grounded in research (books, peer-reviewed journal articles) then you should cite your sources and include a reference page