This week’s topics
Identifying Individual Learner Needs
- Rationale for individualised profiling
- Early identification protocols
- Baseline profiling and screening
- Diagnostic assessment batteries
- Children’s baseline assessment… or accountability? | Research for the Real World
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Explain why it is important to identify and meet the individual needs of learners.
- 3.2 Analyse the role and use of diagnostic assessment in agreeing individual learning goals.
Activity
Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain why it is important to identify and meet the individual needs of learners.
Study materials
Videos
- Children’s baseline assessment… or accountability? | Research for the Real World · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 26 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years (DfE/DHSC, 2015) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 292 pages · for registered students
- National Professional Qualification for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators framework (DfE, 2024) · PDF · GOV.UK, framework; 48 pages · for registered students
- Educational Psychology (Seifert & Sutton), ch. 12: Standardized and other formal assessments · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 277–303 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
