Three more tips
written by the assessment team at the
Jerusalem municipality educational psychology services – with some additions by
me. The members of the team are: Rita Baumgarten, Hanna Brimer,
Nadine Caplan , Eynat Cohen Rahman , Etti Daniel Simon , Uri Dar ,
Michelle Lisses Topaz, Betty Netzer, Ruth Oman Shaked , Adina Sacknovitz
, Smadar Sapir Yogev, Anan Srour
and Dahlia Zayit.
Write about the specific
child, and on a blank page
Don't use a prepared report template. Don't use prepared sentences. Challenge yourselves! Write on a blank sheet of paper. Write about the specific child. How did he cope with the assessment tasks? What
makes his performance unique?
Since each child is unique, each report should also be unique. The model by which you analyze the data will
affect the report's structure and contents (caption, sub-captions, how you
conceptualize the findings and present them).
A specific child's assessment results may fit a specific model more than
others. Some children's data will fit
the CHC model. Other children's data
will better fit the PASS model, the CPM model or the SNP model. (Are these models "Chinese" for you? Read the presentation "A very brief
introduction to intelligence theories" in the "Intelligence and
cognitive abilities" presentation series in the right hand column of this
blog, and the post published on December 5).
Once you've chosen a
diagnostic model, you can write the report according to the model. Within this model, you can decide whether to
begin with describing the child's strengths or weaknesses, his social-emotional
state and its interaction with his cognitive state, or his cognitive state and
its interaction with his social emotional state, and so on.
Leave the data to the appendix
Focus on the child
and his key characteristics and not on the numbers. Try to write with a clear connection to the
data, but describe the child, not the data.
Think about the client who will read your report and write clearly and
in a way that respects him.
If you have enough
grounds, write a clear diagnosis.
Keep it short
Take responsibility
and write things that are focused, central, communicative and readable. The report must be useful.
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