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CoGAT : Cognitive Abilities Test

What is it? What information does it give us? How can we use this to guide our instruction?. CoGAT : Cognitive Abilities Test. Appropriate Purposes for Testing. Identify strengths and weaknesses of individual students Identify strengths and weaknesses of groups of students

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CoGAT : Cognitive Abilities Test

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  1. What is it?What information does it give us?How can we use this to guide our instruction? CoGAT: Cognitive Abilities Test

  2. Appropriate Purposes for Testing • Identify strengths and weaknesses of individual students • Identify strengths and weaknesses of groups of students • Provide feedback to students and parents It is not a mastery test. It is designed to find out how much a student knows. WHAT IS A STANDARDIZED TEST? One Piece of Evidence of Learning Information obtained from the CogAT should be used with other information about the student

  3. ISAT Commercial Created Tests ( Textbooks) Student Self Assessment An Integrated Assessment Program Performance Assessments Teacher Created Formative & Summative Tests Local District Assessments Ability Assessment CogAT COGAT: One component of a balanced assessment program

  4. Comprehending problem situations Detecting similarities and differences Making inferences Making deductions Classifying and categorizing objects, events, and other stimuli Creating and adapting problem-solving strategies Using familiar concepts and skills in new contexts CogAT measures key reasoning skills :

  5. To guide efforts to adapt instruction to the needs and abilities of students To identify students whose predicted levels of achievement differ markedly from their observed levels of achievement Primary uses of CogAT

  6. Verbal Ability – Best predictor of academic success Quantitative Ability – “number sense” ability to see relationship of numbers Nonverbal Ability – Best predictor of how fast a student learns Cogat Measures Abilities

  7. Appropriate Purposes for Testing Difference of 2 or More Stanine is Significant

  8. Scores Primarily Used by the District • SAS = Standard Age Score • Range 50 to 160 • Average is 100 • APR= Age Percentile 1 to 99 • AS = Age Stanine 1 to 9 Additional Scores: • Raw Score = Number Correct • USS = Universal Scale Score • GPR = Grade Perrcentile 1-99 • GS = Grade Stanine 1-9 CogAT Scores

  9. that student coded correct age • Too few items attempted to score • Many items omitted (slow and accurate) • the number attempted – 65 Verbal, 60 Quantitative and 65 Non-Verbal • Too few items attempted to score • Many items omitted (slow and accurate) • for discrepancies of 2 or more stanine between V, Q, or NV CogAT Score Alerts: Check

  10. Ability Profile System Percentile Rank Standard Age Score Ability Profile Score John's ability profile is 5B (Q-).

  11. www.cogat.com • Click on interactive report and enter student profile

  12. A Profile= All Abilities roughly at sAme level • B Profile = One of the Abilities is aBove or Below the other B(N-) or B(V+) • C Profile = Contrast A student shows a relative strength and a relative weakness. C(V+ Q-) • E Profile = Extreme difference between abilities Cognitive Ability Profiles Informative For Teachers & parents • www.cogat.com • Click on interactive report and enter student profile

  13. Ability Profile System View Instructional Strategies

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