The functional capacity assessment tool automatically generates different views based on the responses. This way, the assessments of the pupil and the persons close to them provide a comprehensive and diverse view of the pupil's functional capacity, including the pupil's strengths and challenges as well as needs for support. Below you find instructions on how to use and interpret the views.

Overview of strengths
Based on a shared view, the system automatically selects the five strongest areas of the pupil’s functional capacity for the Overview of strengths. To replace the strengths displayed in the view by ones that describe the pupil's functional capacity better, click on Change strength. You can also change the image at the centre of the Overview of strengths.

Strengths and challenges
The strengths of the pupil’s functional capacity (average 0 to 1.5) and challenges (average 2 to 4) are calculated using the average of the scores given by the respondents. The Strengths and challenges view displays the strengths and challenges of the pupil’s functional capacity by sub-areas.

An area of functional capacity is seen as a strength if the pupil can manage the functions independently or only needs some support (average of responses 0 to 1.5).

The pupil can be seen as having challenges in an area of their functional capacity when the shared view is that they need quite lot or a lot of support, or are not capable of the function at all (average of responses 2 to 4).

Functional capacity (0 – 4)
Displays a shared view of the pupil’s functional capacity on a scale of 0 to 4. The shared view is calculated using the average of the scores given by the respondents. In the functional capacity assessment, a scale of 0 to 4 is used to assess the need for support in the task or function in question.

Functional capacity (Y/N)
This view displays a pupil's functional capacity described as Yes/No answers. Any responses entered in the free text field are also displayed here.

Conflicts
If there are clear differences between the respondents’ views of the pupil’s functional capacity, this is displayed in the Conflicts view. This may be due to differences of interpretation or, for example, the fact that the pupil's functional capacity varies in different operating environments.

Assessments
In the Assessments view, you can examine individual respondents’ descriptions.

Summary
You can pick significant information on the pupil’s functional capacity from other views, including strengths, support needs and conflicting views, for the summary. You can include in the summary goals, pedagogic measures related to the need for support and observations that emerged in the discussion. NB: The summary is not saved online but you can print it out and store it in your personal pupil registers. The summary is a useful document for transferring information, for example when sent to the pupil’s future educational institution.

Information
The Information tab contains information on the functional capacity assessment, such as the selected sub-areas that are described in the assessment and information on the professionals to whom the assessment was sent.

On the Information tab, you can send additional invitations to participate in the functional capacity assessment and monitor the responses. Here you can also share assessment information with another user by clicking on the "Share with another user" button located under the "Additional features". To copy the assessment and use it as a repeat assessment for the same pupil, go to Advanced features and click on the Copy to a new assessment button. To compare an earlier assessment and a new one, go to Additional features and click on the Compare to previous assessment button.  You can also edit an earlier assessment you have copied to make it more suitable, for example by changing the batteries of questions.


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