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Understanding COGAT score presentation

This presentation will help parents understand their child's COGAT score in detail

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Understanding COGAT score presentation

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  1. Understanding COGAT score Presented by www.top-grader.com

  2. COGAT Overview COGAT is a multiple-choice test which appraises general abstract reasoning abilities. It is not an IQ test but measures learned reasoning abilities of a student. It focuses on specific reasoning areas linked to school success. COGAT

  3. Understanding COGAT score With the information gained from the COGAT tests, teachers can gain valuable insight that can help them assist and teach their students more effectively. Teachers are well versed at interpreting CogAT test scores. But even parents can how to interpret these numbers.

  4. The following explanation for various parts of COGAT test scores will help parents to understand their child’s performance: • Abilities • Standard Age Scores • Stanine Age Scores • Age Percentile Rank • APR Graph • Grade scores • Local scores • CoGAT profile

  5. Abilities: The CogAT, as earlier mentioned, tests three different types of cognitive abilities. Verbal section evaluates your child’s ability to remember and change sequences of English words. Quantitative portion test child’s ability to find relationships among numbers and equations are measured. Nonverbal part examines the reasoning skills of your child when it does not involve words at all. Your child may be asked to choose which shapes are most alike. • Standard Age Scores: These scores compare your child to the other students in their age group. Talk about homework expectations • Stanine Age Scores: This score gives a clearer idea of your child’s ranking among others of their age. The score ranges from a low of 1 to a high of 9.

  6. Age Percentile Rank: This gives a specific idea of how the child ranks among their age group in the entire country. • Standard Age Scores: These scores compare your child to the other students in their age group. Talk about homework expectations • APR Graph Age Scores: It is simply a graph which shows your child’s age percentile rank. • Raw scores: This part gives three numbers for each test portion. These numbers represent the number of questions on the test, the number of questions your child tried to answer, and the number of correct answers for each portion.

  7. Grade scores Percentile Rank: These explain how your child compares to other students in the same age group in the entire country. • Local scores: These explain how your child compares to other students in the same age group in the same school system. • CogAT profile: The various scores for all the portions of the test as a whole also gives the profile for the child. With the profile, appropriate measures can then be taken so that your child gets the right kind of educational help from the teachers.

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