What Is An Educational Assessment & Its Purpose?
An educational assessment is a process that enables the student to receive additional support in order to succeed academically. Educational assessments are conducted by qualified professionals such as school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and certified teachers.
If you’re a teacher, an educator, or just someone who cares about kids in general, you’ve probably been asked to provide a formal assessment of a student’s progress in school. In this article, we’ll explain what it means to give an educational assessment, how it differs from other types of assessments (such as for testing or therapy), and how to assess students using the most evidence-based practices available.
A child’s challenges can affect their self-esteem and school performance, even their behaviour. Getting to the root cause of your child’s struggles in school is the first step to making changes so they can reach their full potential.
You can help your child by being a good advocate for them. If you suspect your child has learning challenges, learn as much as possible about their condition and get an assessment from their school. Often the best solutions come from working with the school to find ways that will help your child succeed in school and achieve their full potential.
When a child is struggling in school, there are many possible causes. These difficulties can affect their self-esteem and school performance, even their behaviour. Getting to the root cause of your child’s struggles in school is the first step to making changes so they can reach their full potential.
An educational assessment can help identify your child’s academic strengths and challenges or whether there is a learning difficulty recommended for further evaluation. (H2)
An educational assessment can help identify your child’s academic strengths and challenges or whether there is a learning difficulty recommended for further evaluation. The results of an educational assessment will give you information about how your child learns best, what they know now, and what they need to learn next.
The results may include:
- Strengths and weaknesses in math, reading comprehension, spelling and other areas.
- Suggestions for ways to extend learning at home such as reading aloud to your child every day or working with them on specific areas that need more practice like mathematics facts or writing letters of the alphabet in order from A-Z.
- Information on how your child thinks about schoolwork such as having trouble concentrating if other children are talking around him/her; needing quiet time after lunchtime; not doing well when her desk isn’t organized properly…etc.)
It helps uncover how your child learns best, through information about their academic skills (basic skills like reading, writing and math), cognitive abilities (thinking processes) and other factors that are important in understanding how well they learn.
You can use educational assessments to help uncover how your child learns best, through information about their academic skills (basic skills like reading, writing and math), cognitive abilities (thinking processes) and other factors that are important in understanding how well they learn.
This is important because it can help you understand what kind of learning environment is best for your child. It could also help you identify if there are any needs that need to be addressed such as:
- A need for more support at home or in school
- A need for more challenging work at school
Educational assessment is part of what an educational psychologist does to help your child succeed. An educational psychologist evaluates the nature of your child’s potential learning difficulties, identifies the things that make it hard for them to learn and makes recommendations for improvements.
Educational assessment is part of what an educational psychologist does to help your child succeed. An educational psychologist evaluates the nature of your child’s potential learning difficulties, identifies the things that make it hard for them to learn and makes recommendations for improvements.
Educational assessment goes beyond academic skills testing and looks at how various factors influence learning, including thinking processes (listening skills, language comprehension), attention/concentration and sensory processing skills. It also includes social skills like reading facial expressions or understanding body language. Learning takes place everywhere!
If you suspect that a student isn’t learning as well as they should ask to have them tested by an educational psychologist.
The assessment goes beyond academics and tests to look at how a variety of factors influence learning, including thinking processes, listening skills, language and reading comprehension, attention/concentration, sensory processing and social skills.
We want to know how the student processes information in the classroom, and what their strengths and weaknesses are outside of school that may be having an impact on their performance at school or in home life. We also want to know what your family’s beliefs are about education and how those beliefs affect your child’s learning experience. Finally, we want to hear any concerns or issues that you have about your child’s progress or behaviour in school so that we can address them before they become larger problems.
From schools to homes, learning takes place everywhere. If you suspect that a student isn’t learning as well as they should ask to have them tested by an educational psychologist.
Educational assessment is a process that helps identify the root cause of your child’s learning difficulties. An educational psychologist will administer a range of assessments and then use the results to make an assessment diagnosis. Educational assessments may be carried out by schools and educational psychologists, or you may choose to have them done privately.
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An educational assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of your child’s academic and cognitive skills. At Mizu Therapy & Assessment, our educational assessment psychologists, successfully help identify the root causes of children’s struggles in school, which is the first step to making changes so they can reach their full potential.
