This course is for anyone who is interested in the selection, use and interpretation of standardised tests, and the principles of educational testing, from those who are new to the subject through to those who hold a qualification in assessment. Communicate-ed is an Authorised Assessment CPD provider for the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC). This is a SASC approved course giving 5 core hours for renewal of SpLD Assessment Practising Certificates.
The course covers key aspects for consideration when choosing standardised tests and the correct administration and interpretation of these tests, including:
During the course there is the opportunity to consider in depth the following tests: KTEA 3, DASH 2, CTOPP 2 and RAN/RAS.
Sessions covering the following tests are also available online (most of which are SASC-approved for core CPD hours): ART 2, BPVS 3, DRA 3, Dyslexia Portfolio, GORT 5, SPaRCS, TOC 2, ToD, TOMAL 2, TOSCRF 2, TOSWRF 2, TOWRE 2, WIAT-III UK, WRAT 5, WRIT, Woodcock Johnson IV and YARC.
Please see our Small Byte CPD page for more details.
The course tutors are Lia Castiglione, Rebecca Thompson and Anna Barnett.
Lia has been teaching and supporting learners of all ages for over 30 years and in varying educational settings. She is a specialist teacher assessor who is highly experienced in all aspects of access arrangements, has held a current Assessment Practising Certificate since 2008 and regularly assesses in schools and colleges. An accomplished educational trainer, Lia is the co-creator of a postgraduate access arrangements assessor course and is the author of the Patoss/JCQ book, ‘Assessing the Need for Access Arrangements’. She works as an independent educational consultant through her company ‘Castiglione Consulting Ltd’.
Rebecca is a Specialist Teacher with more than 21 years’ assessment experience. She has a current Assessment Practising Certificate, regularly carrying out diagnostic assessment for dyslexia and dyscalculia, as well as carrying out access arrangement assessments. She is a senior assessor and IQA for the PAPAA course, supporting students with the course demands. She is a member of the APC accreditation team for the BDA and is a SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) approved CPD provider, with current SASC courses for mentoring on diagnostic report writing; building assessment confidence in report writing for SpLD in maths; branching out into EAA: a guide for Level 7/APC holder; and using the SASC 2025 report format for SpLD in maths.
Anna Barnett is a Professor in Psychology at the Centre for Psychological Research, Oxford Brookes University. Much of Anna’s research is in the area of motor development and disorders, particularly Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). She has published widely on the assessment, diagnosis and understanding of DCD. Anna also has a particular interest in writing and handwriting. She is the principal author of the DASH, DASH1 7+ and Handwriting Legibility Scale and has conducted research to better understand the writing and handwriting difficulties of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, including those with DCD and Dyslexia.
This course is available online for you to access at a time and place of your choice. Delegates will have 10 consecutive days to log in and watch all of the course content.
When you select to book an online course, you will be able to select a start date.
From this date, you will have ten consecutive days access to your chosen course (unless the course specifies otherwise).
Once you have filled in your details and submitted the booking, you should receive a couple of emails within a few minutes. One of these will confirm you order and payment. The other will be a confirmation email for the course and include login details to access your course.
If you select today as your start date, the login details should work from the time you receive the email. If you have chosen a start date in the future, the login details will only work from that date.
You will be able to access any video presentations and course notes for ten days. Assessments can only be taken once. Please note that if you have watched all the video presentations through once and then log back into the website to go over the material again, you will get the following message: ‘You are not registered for any courses at this time’. To get back into the course you need to:
If you are already registered for an online course with us, please click here to log into your course.
This course is not assessed. You can opt to do a multiple choice assessment to assess your knowledge after the course for an additional £10.
Communicate-ed is an Authorised Assessment CPD provider for the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC). This is a SASC approved course giving 5 core hours for renewal of SpLD Assessment Practising Certificates. SASC limit all approved CPD courses to 5 core hours; additional hours can be counted towards general CPD.
The course will take approximately 7 hours to complete (including watching each presentation once and carrying out the suggested consolidation activities).
The sessions are as follows:
If you have access to the tests covered you will find it helpful to have a copy of the manual to refer to during the presentation. However, this is not essential as the presenter will show the appropriate pages on the screen. Most of the tests have record/examiner forms produced by the publishers. When you book, we will send you a pack of the appropriate forms through the post for you to refer to during the presentation, so please bear this in mind when you select your start date if you want to allow time for this to arrive.
You can book online using the form below. You can Pay online, or we can supply you with an invoice.