cogat teacher training. what is cogat? cognitive abilities test
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CogAT Teacher Training
What Is CogAT?
Cognitive Abilities Test
Who do we test?
October—Grades 2 and 5 take the full CogAT Three complete batteries
about 1 hour per battery
3 hours total (over 3 different school days)
December—Kinder takes a screener CogAT Three screener batteries
about 1 hour total in 1 school day
How do we use it in GCISD?
One data point for ASPIRE student identification
State requirement that all Kinder students be screened for GT identification
Instructional tools based on student abilities We need to focus on this when working with data following
the administration.
Remember
Student cognitive abilities can develop as a student progresses in his/her education.
Scores are valid for 2 years.
What does the test look like?
Computer-based assessment that must be administered over a wired internet connection
Proctor-Led or Audio-Led Proctor-Led=teacher reads each question to the class, after
all students have responded, you read the next question.
Teacher may translate directions/question into Spanish
Self-paced=students wear headphones and hear the question read by the computer
Both Spanish and English audio-led assessments are available
How long does it take?
Verbal Battery Level 8 Grade 2
Level 11 Grade 5
Picture Analogies
13 10
Sentence Completion
14 10
Picture Classification
13 10
How long does it take?
Quantitative Battery
Level 8Grade 2
Level 11Grade 5
Number Analogies
15 10
Number Puzzles
15 10
NumberSeries
15 10
How long does it take?
Nonverbal Battery
Level 8Grade 2
Level 11Grade 5
FigureMatrices
13 10
PaperFolding
11 10
FigureClassification
13 10
Getting Ready to Test
Log in to the CogAT/Riverside Data Manager site.
User ID (UID) is your GCISD email address [email protected]
Password (PW) can be reset using the provided “forgot password” link
Accommodations?
Oral for all students
Untimed for all students
Audio available in English and Spanish
Small group allowed
No calculators/calculation devices
Repeated directions are allowed for all Proctor may repeat
Or student can have the computer repeat the directions
Sentence Completion may be omitted for ELLs
If not appropriate, the ARD committee can choose that a student not test.
Click on the Navigation Button.Select “Assessments”
Click on the blue button.
Find your test session and session code.
DO NOT click on the blue underlined name of the session until it is time to test. This starts the session; it expires 24 hours from being started and will have to be re-created.
Day of Testing
Log into RiversideDataManager.com Note your session code; write it on the board.
Log all student computers on using UID: xxxtesting (xxx=your campus 3 letter code)
tesTT@ker (testtaker, with capital T’s and @)
Find the CogAT Lockdown Browser on the student desktop. Launch it.
Students log in on the right with their GCISD # and the Session Code.
A “Draw Here” screen appears for students to use while waiting to start testing.
The students need to check for their name at the top of the Draw Here page.
Feel free to delete this slide, but please discuss this.
Be patient, last year there were some pages that took a while to load. Just breathe and wait.
Don’t click, click, click until you READ, READ, READ.
Many phone calls had to be placed last year because students were inadvertently marked as having completed a subtest, when they had not completed it, but instead an understandably frustrated and impatient teacher clicked without really reading what was being clicked.
Once all students are in:
Approve all students.
Walk around to actively monitor students.
Each student must hit submit.
When all students in a subtest have completed testing, you can Continue Testing All—advance to next subtest (Be sure this
is what you want to do)
End Testing All—stop testing. Students will have to log in with a new session code.
Directions for Online Administration
Grades K, 2Grade 5
Pages to Reference in Manuals
Level 5/6-8 Manual
Level 9-17 Manual
Accommodations p. 7 p.7
Troubleshooting p. 12 p. 12
Pretesting Checklist p.15 p. 14
Administer the Tests p. 17-30 p.15-28
About the Proctor Led Tab p. 32 p. 30
Adding a Student to a Roster
p.43 p.42
Log into School Wires to View Resources on the Assessment and Accountability Page.
