Core-Selective Evaluation Process
Meaningful Evaluations.
Defensible Decisions.
Better Outcomes for Students.
C-SEP helps evaluation teams move beyond simply administering tests to conducting purposeful, evidence-driven investigations of how students learn.
Evaluation with purpose.
The Core-Selective Evaluation Process (C-SEP) is a comprehensive framework for conducting meaningful, student-centered educational evaluations, introduced in 2015.
Rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach, C-SEP guides multidisciplinary teams through a systematic process: gathering relevant learning data, developing evidence-based hypotheses, selecting assessments with purpose, and integrating multiple sources of information to answer referral questions and support defensible eligibility decisions.
A clear process for complex evaluations.
01
Review
Gather and organize existing information.
02
Plan
Develop referral questions and evidence-based hypotheses.
03
Assess
Collect targeted information needed to test those hypotheses.
04
Decide
Integrate the evidence and apply professional judgment.
Purposeful by design.
Relevant Data
Focus on information that helps explain the student's learning.
Multiple Sources
Integrate academic, functional, developmental, contextual, and assessment data.
Professional Judgment
Use evidence to support thoughtful multidisciplinary decision-making.
Student-Centered
Build the evaluation around the individual student rather than a predetermined battery.
Built for professionals making consequential decisions.
- Educational Diagnosticians
- School Psychologists
- Special Education Professionals
- Multidisciplinary Evaluation Teams
- Special Education Leaders
- School Districts
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Tammy L. Stephens, Ph.D.
Co-Author, C-SEP
Edward K. Schultz, Ph.D.
Co-Author, C-SEP
Make every assessment answer a question.
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