What is it? What information does it give us? How can we use this to guide our instruction?
Dec 29, 2015
It is not a mastery test. It is designed to find out how much a student
knows.
Identify strengths and weaknesses of individual students
Identify strengths and weaknesses of groups of students
Provide feedback to students and parents
Information obtained from the CogAT should be used with other information about the student
PerformanceAssessments
Local DistrictAssessments
StudentSelf
Assessment
Teacher CreatedFormative & Summative
Tests
ISAT
An Integrated AssessmentProgram
Ability Assessment
CogAT
Commercial Created Tests ( Textbooks)
• 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
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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
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
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
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
Ability Profile ScoreAbility Profile Score
Standard Age Score
Percentile Rank
John's ability profile is 5B (Q-).
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
www.cogat.com Click on interactive report and enter student
profile