How to write a part 1

All assessment areas related to the suspected disability indicated on the Planning Form as either sufficient or new must be included in a Part 1, the Individual Evaluator's Form, of the ETR. Each person indicated on the Planning Form as being the person responsible for assessment and report must complete their own Part 1 including all assessment areas indicated for that person.

The Part 1 form needs to include the evaluator’s name, title or position, areas of assessment or data collected (from the planning form) and the evaluation or data collection methods and strategies. The assessment information must include a summary of all the data gathered that is listed in areas of assessment and it must match the information on the planning form. The assessment summary should include strengths and needs of the assessed student. The assessment summary results may include data from assessments, classroom data, observations, interview information or other relevant student data but it also must include statements that can be clearly understood by all team members. It should include the source of the assessment, testing or information collection protocols involved, the date the assessment was conducted or the date of previously available information and the interpretation of the assessment results where applicable.

There must be a complete description of educational needs based upon the assessment results that include relative strengths, areas of need and baseline data where appropriate. The evaluator must clearly describe implications for instruction and progress monitoring based upon the results of the assessments and description of educational needs. The implications for instruction should include more than a list of accommodations recommended for that student. The implications for instruction are intended to be suggestions of instructional strategies that the IEP team can use to determine what specially designed services might be beneficial for the student to access and make progress in the general education curriculum.

Finally, the Individual Evaluator’s Assessment page must be signed by the evaluator who provided the input and be dated to reflect the date of the signature.