Course curriculum

  • 1

    Demonstrating expertise in your analysis of assessment performance

    • This is a crucial part of your professional practice!

    • A way of validating your diagnostic decision...

  • 2

    What do we mean by converging evidence?

    • Making links; converging evidence

  • 3

    For more information

    • Further training opportunities

Demonstrating your expertise

This mini training will help you to demonstrate key criteria which APC reviewers are looking for. This is fundamental to demonstrating finesse as a diagnostic assessor.

  • Criteria 2. 'The assessor has a thorough understanding of how cognitive processing contributes to the identification of the SpLD/s under consideration.'

  • Criteria 3. 'A range of background information has been gathered from a variety of sources and that this has been used to inform the assessment and the diagnostic decision. '

  • Criteria 10. 'All information is drawn together to provide a clear interpretation and synthesis of the assessment evidence.'

Reviews

5 star rating

Reassuring

Shenaz Bagshaw

Reassuring that I am making appropriate links. Thank you so much.

Reassuring that I am making appropriate links. Thank you so much.

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Really useful!

Emma Mahon

A fantastic overview of 'making links', really well explained.

A fantastic overview of 'making links', really well explained.

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5 star rating

Great

Charlotte Robbe

Very useful, thank you very much.

Very useful, thank you very much.

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5 star rating

Great course

Theresa Hughes

Simple, short and succinct. Perfect explanation of how to make links.

Simple, short and succinct. Perfect explanation of how to make links.

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Great

Charlotte Robbe

Very useful, thank you very much.

Very useful, thank you very much.

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5 star rating

Excellent professional guidance and information

Karen Mitchell

Being able to make links and merge the evidence from testing, comments, questionnaires and history of difficulties is crucial. This course reinforced how to...

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Being able to make links and merge the evidence from testing, comments, questionnaires and history of difficulties is crucial. This course reinforced how to do this accurately and to inform writing of your assessment. Great for your APC renewal.

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5 star rating

Plenty of food for thought

Niki Sweetnam

Thank you for organising this short course - punchy and provoking.

Thank you for organising this short course - punchy and provoking.

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5 star rating

extremely helpful and user friendly!

Siân Connell

Nudges us again to make the links and know our tests

Nudges us again to make the links and know our tests

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making links

Sarah Benarroch