Final Case Report

SPE 501 Educational and Diagnostic Assessment for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities

Final Case Report: 

As your summative assessment for this course you will conduct a case study and write a psychoeducational report on your findings.  The purpose of the report will be to contribute to the processes for determining eligibility through the collection of multiple data points.  There are two options for completion:

Option 1:  I will provide you with the data for a case study and you will write your report from what you have received.

Option 2: For those of you working in a school and have access to children, you may conduct a case study report on actual student at your school.  Preferably this will be a student for whom there may be some concerns about academic or social/emotional functioning.  The student should have both academic and social/emotional concerns and ideally, would be a student that you have or would advocate for a full case study evaluation to determine if there is the presence of a disability. In order to complete the profile you will need to do the following:

1. Have access to records and personnel familiar with the student
2. Administer multiple weeks of Curriculum Based Measures (at least 5)
3. Administer one individually administered academic achievement or aptitude test 
4. Interview the parent or guardian
5. Interview the student
6. Interview other school professionals:  teachers, social workers, psychologist, counselor, speech therapist
7. Conduct a student observation 
8. Create an anecdotal record, ABC analysis and event recording

You will be looking to answer the following questions in your report

• Does this student need to be evaluated for the presence of a disability?
• What are the cultural and familial impacts on this students’ performance in the classroom?
• How did the student perform on curriculum based measures? Standardizes achievement testing? Assessment of social/emotional and behavioral functioning?
• How does the student compare with typically developing peers?
• What interventions have you (and others) put into place to address the deficits?
• How did the student respond to the interventions?
• What are the academic and social supports that are needed for this student to be successful?
• What are the goals and objectives that should be developed for this student?

Here is an outline to organize your report:

Section 1: Background Information

              Student information

Family

              School History

Section 2: Present Levels of Performance

Identification of the problems including any assessment that is available to you and your observations of the student.   This is the section where you will address how the student compares to typically developing peers through analysis of the data.  There should be two major sections here:

• Academic Functioning
  • Grades
  • Performance in class including your observations of the problem
  • Interview data (parents/student/other school professionals)
  • Test Data:  
    • • CBMs
      • Standardized Assessment administered
  • Interventions implemented and report on the success of those interventions
• Behavioral Functioning
  • Description of the problem behaviors in your class
  • Results of Behavior Assessment
  • Hypothesis about the function of those behaviors
  • Interview data (parents/student/other school professionals)
  • Discussion of interventions implemented with the student

Section 3:  Build an argument for a case study evaluation for this student:

• Laws and regulations that support case study for this student.
• Your hypothesis about how the student meets eligibility for one of the 13 disabling        conditions. Does the child qualify for special education program and services?  Why or Why not? How does the data support or refute a diagnosis of one of the disabling conditions?   What type of program and related services might be required and  why? Be sure and speak to the Least Restrictive Principle and inclusion as you make your recommendations.
• You can also make suggestions for additional data to be collected:

Academic functioning concerns:

Recommendations for collecting data to reinforce your case for evaluation: Both CBM for monitoring and Individually Administered Academic Achievement. (your text provides some excellent descriptions of standardized Academic Achievement tests that are available)

Rationale for the recommendations for data collection

Social/Emotional concerns:

Recommendation for collecting data to reinforce your case for evaluation and your rationale for the choice

Section 4: Instructional Recommendations

• Explain how you would provide instruction based on the information.  For example, what skills would you focus on, how would you do this and why?

Section 5:  Goals and Objectives

• One Academic and One Behavioral Long Term Objective with three short term objectives written in SMART goal format that moves the student toward mastery of the goals.  Be sure your goals have a specific method for measuring progress toward the goal.

Section 6: Accommodations and Supports

• Recommendations for classroom and assessment accommodations and supports and why they are needed for classroom, district and state testing.

Authentic performance based assessment is always the most meaningful so I highly suggest that if at all possible take Option 2.  I will ask you early in the term to decide which option you will take.  On its face it looks like just picking up the collected data may be an easier task.  There are many complications with the case and you will need to learn about several new instruments that we will not cover in class and to tackle some complex problems.  But it is, of course, up to you. With option 1 you will receive the case in week 9.  For Option 2, I am happy to consult all through the term as we cover the content in our course. 

Your report should be comprehensive in nature and demonstrate your understanding of the evaluation process, data interpretation and analysis, with a thorough description of accommodations and supports and types of services.  Charts and graphs of the collected data are expected.

Your case report should be well organized and professionally written with few to no errors in mechanics or grammar.  If writing is challenging, then please refer to the syllabus for NLU learning supports where you can receive proofing and editing assistance. The case report should be written in a manner that all stakeholders, and most specifically parents, can understand.   You may want to review the Case Report Rubric for better understanding of what is required for this assessment. The Case Report is the summative assessment for this course so you will want to incorporate all that you have learned. This assessment is worth 100 points.

You may submit your report up to for review and feedback with an opportunity for revision up to August 10th.  Final submission is due on  August 18th  at 11:30 pm – NO EXCEPTIONS.     There will be a 10 point deduction for case studies no turned in by this date.  

These resources may help you if some of the measures are unfamiliar:

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