The Future of Education

Psychological assessment is the starting point for planning therapeutic and educational support for students with special educational needs. It acquires particular importance in the education of students with migration experience, who enter the educational system without knowledge of or with a poor level of the language of school education. The difficulties of these students can be further compounded when migration co-occurs with neurodevelopmental disorders such as language development disorder. Diagnosis of these students requires tools that are not only reliable and relevant but also adapted to the specific needs of pupils surveyed. This condition is met by tools designed universally. The purpose of the poster will be to present a diagnostic tool for assessing students' cognitive abilities called Comprehensive Analysis of Cognitive Processes  (KAPP). It is a universally designed tool that enables fair and valid assessments of a wide range of users, including individuals with special educational needs. It also helps prevent bias in test scoring and interpretation, at the same time, enables fairness in test use. Comprehensive Analysis of Cognitive Processes  is a tool-kit that assess the level of executive functions (attention control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and reasoning), the speed of perceptual processes, as well as linguistic functions in terms of speech- and writing-based communication. The tool has been designed to enable the diagnosis of diverse groups of people with special educational needs – from gifted children, through people with intellectual disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. autism), and language disorders and dyslexia, to migrant children.  Poster will present the applicability of the tool in the assessment and planning of educational support for migrant children.