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Assessment & Diagnostic Skills

Assessment and Diagnostic Skills cover: a practitioner reviewing a five-pillar diagnostic summary and an evidence-over-time chart, beside the words Assessment and Diagnostic Skills.
  • Professional
  • £30.00
  • Course 3 of 6
  • About 100 minutes
  • Certificate on completion

How AURIS actually assesses where someone is, using the same baseline method, markers and honesty discipline used in AURIS's own pilot delivery, not a generic coaching assessment framework borrowed from elsewhere.

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About this course

A five-lesson practitioner course built directly on AURIS's own real assessment practice: baseline measurement before any work begins, marking regulation strategies as internal or external, deliberately recording disconfirming cases rather than only confirming ones, capturing the mechanism of change rather than just whether it happened, and following up honestly over time.

What you will learn

  • Take a proper baseline before any plan is made, the same way AURIS does in pilot delivery
  • Mark regulation strategies as internal or external, and recognise over-reliance on one external factor
  • Actively look for disconfirming cases, not just evidence that confirms what you expect to find
  • Capture the mechanism of change, not just whether a shift happened
  • Follow up honestly over time, without overclaiming what a short assessment can actually tell you

Why this matters

Good support starts with knowing honestly where someone actually is. This course teaches the real assessment method AURIS uses in its own pilot delivery, so your plans are built on evidence rather than impression.

Course curriculum

5 lessons. The lesson content itself opens once you start the course.

  1. Lesson 1 · about 20 minutes

    Baseline First

    This lesson is about taking a proper baseline before any plan is made, the way AURIS does in its own pilot delivery.

    • Take a proper five-pillar baseline before any plan is made
    • Explain why a baseline matters more than an impression

  2. Lesson 2 · about 20 minutes

    The Internal/External Marker

    This lesson is about one small marker that does a surprising amount of diagnostic work.

    • Mark a regulation strategy as internal or external
    • Spot over-reliance on an external factor that could disappear

  3. Lesson 3 · about 20 minutes

    Disconfirming Cases Matter

    This lesson is about a discipline that keeps assessment honest: actively looking for the cases that don't fit.

    • Actively look for cases that do not fit the expected pattern
    • Record disconfirming cases as carefully as confirming ones

  4. Lesson 4 · about 20 minutes

    Mechanism Reflection

    This lesson is about the difference between knowing something worked, and knowing how it worked.

    • Capture the mechanism of change, not just the outcome
    • Write a Mechanism Reflection you could actually repeat

  5. Lesson 5 · about 20 minutes

    Following Up Honestly

    This lesson is about resisting a real temptation: treating a good final session as proof that something worked.

    • Plan an honest follow-up weeks after a programme ends
    • Recognise the difference between a fair claim and overclaiming

What is included

  • Guided reflections
  • Interactive exercises
  • Practical activities
  • Downloadable worksheets
  • Assessment
  • Portfolio work
  • Certificate on completion

The AURIS Diagnostic Pathway

The AURIS Diagnostic Pathway: five connected stages running left to right, Baseline First, Internal and External Markers, Disconfirming Cases, Mechanism Reflection and Honest Follow-Up, under the line evidence over time, not impressions.
Five stages that keep assessment honest: start with a baseline, read internal and external markers, look for cases that do not fit, reflect on the mechanism, then follow up over time.

Research and evidence

This course is built directly on AURIS's own real assessment method, as used in its own pilot delivery: baseline measurement, the Internal/External regulation marker, the discipline of recording disconfirming cases, and Mechanism Reflection (from AURIS's Workshop Cohort Sheets and Facilitator Data Collection Checklist). This is AURIS's own real practice, not a borrowed external framework.

Course progression

This is course 3 of 6 in the AURIS Practitioner Certification.

  1. Foundation
  2. Applied
  3. Practitioner

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