Educational Psychology Assessments for The Global College Madrid Students
The Global College is a co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 15 to 18 only, delivering exclusively the two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.
The school sits on Calle Castellón de la Plana in Barrio de Salamanca, in central Madrid, and serves around 320 students. Day tuition is EUR 20,940 per year and boarding tuition is EUR 37,440 per year, with the boarding houses located in the El Viso neighbourhood a 15-minute walk from the campus.
The school operates in strategic partnership with IE University, one of the leading private universities in Madrid, and the campus itself was previously used by IE Business School.
The IB Diploma Programme is complemented by an Entrepreneurship Project that the school positions as a pre-university experience rather than as the final two years of school. Teachers have an average of 20 years’ experience, and many are themselves IB examiners.
The student body is built around international mobility, with families relocating to Madrid for the specific purpose of completing the IB Diploma at The Global College.
When to Commission a Psychoeducational Assessment from Global Education Testing
When parents or teachers at The Global College suspect learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, anxiety, autism spectrum profiles, executive function difficulties, processing speed difficulties, or working memory weaknesses, the first place to start is a comprehensive psychoeducational assessment.
A single-condition screen is not enough. A dyslexia-only screen tells the family whether dyslexia is present and stops. A screen for any single named condition does the same. It does not capture the ADHD that often co-occurs with dyslexia, the anxiety that often co-occurs with both, or the executive function profile that shapes how the student experiences all of them.
For a Global College student in particular, the two-year IB Diploma timeline leaves no room for delay. Students arrive at age 15 or 16 from another school, often from another country, and the clock to IB Diploma examinations starts immediately.
The IB Inclusive Access Arrangements process requires diagnostic documentation that captures the full functional picture across cognitive, academic, attention, executive function, and emotional functioning domains, alongside evidence that the requested arrangement reflects the student’s normal way of working.
A comprehensive assessment commissioned in Year 12 supports both the documentation requirement and the school’s classroom planning through to Year 13 examinations.
What a Global Education Testing Assessment Delivers
Global Education Testing has worked with many Global College students over the years. The comprehensive psychoeducational and neurodevelopmental assessment is delivered by HCPC-registered educational psychologists via secure video link, with the full process running over 21 days from initial enquiry to delivery of the written report.
The assessment examines cognitive abilities, working memory, processing speed, academic achievement in reading, spelling, written expression, and mathematics, attention regulation, executive functioning, emotional wellbeing, behavioural and social functioning, and learning differences across the full clinical range.
The diagnostic report is anchored in DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 criteria, written in English, and structured to satisfy the IB Inclusive Access Arrangements process for IB Diploma examinations, the College Board for SAT, ACT, AP, and PSAT accommodations where students take them alongside the IB, admissions test accommodations for selective UK and US universities, and university learning support services across the destinations Global College graduates reach.
The accommodations the report can unlock include extra time in examinations, supervised rest breaks, a separate examination room, the use of a word processor, a reader, a scribe, modified paper formats, a prompter for students with attention difficulties, and permission to take medication during examinations.