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Greenwich Public Schools

Reading the Cognitive Abilities TestScore Report

November 7, 2016

9:30 am Byram Library

November 9, 2016

9:30 am Cos Cob Library

7:00 pm Board of Education

Bonnie O’ReganCognitive Abilities Test District Facilitator

“What is best for this child?”

“What is best for this child?”

“What is best for this child?”

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Learning Zone

Comfort Zone

Zone of Proximal Development

CogAT: Cognitive Abilities Test

What is it?

What information does it give us?

How can we use this information?

CogAT: Cognitive Abilities Test

COGNITIVE: intellectual activity skills such as thinking and reasoning

Measures both general & specific cognitive abilities

The CogAT is a COGNITIVE abilities assessment used for ALL groups of learners

NOT just for Advanced Learning Program Placement

In combination with other relevant information, scores can be used to differentiate instruction in ways that enhance learning.

CogAT measures three different cognitive abilities:

Verbal Battery Quantitative Battery

NonVerbal Battery

Assesses a student’s• vocabulary

efficiency and verbal memory

• ability to determine word relationships

• comprehendideas

Assesses a student’s• understanding of

basic concepts and relationships essential for learning mathematics

• relationalconcepts by discovering relationships to figure out a rule or principle

Assesses a student’s reasoning using pictures and geometric shapes

Raw Scores Number of Items = the number of questions on the

subtests.

Number Att. (attempted) = the number of questions the student answered.

Number Correct = the total number of items the student answered correctly.

Definition of RAW SCORE

The CogAT allows comparisons of the performance of students with the performance of other students in the nation of the same grade who took the same test at the same time of year.

The CogAT allows comparisons of the performance of students with the performance of other students in the nation of the same age who took the same test.

Standard Age Score(SAS)

Cognitive Level NationalSAS Range

GreenwichSAS Range

Very High 128-150+ 139-150+

Above Average 112-127 129-138

Average 89-111 110-128

Below Average 73-88 95-109

Very Low 50-72 73-94

Ability Profile System

This report shows the results of testing for your child at one particular time on one particular assessment. It is important to always look for multiple pieces of evidence when using assessment data to make decisions.