Captures the level and pattern of a student’s scores on the three CogAT batteries.
What is the ability profile?
100
This score is the means by which raw scores from different levels of the test are placed on a common scale. This makes it possible to compare performance on one level of a test battery with performance on any other level of the same test battery.
What is the Universal Scale Score (USS)?
100
1. To guide efforts to adapt instruction to the needs and abilities of students
2. To provide measures of cognitive development that usefully compliment other measures of cognitive and academic development such as achievement test scores grades
3. To identify students whose predicted levels of achievement are markedly discrepant from their observed level of achievement
What are the three primary uses of the CogAT?
100
Allows one student’s scores to be compared with those obtained by representative samples of other students.
What is the website for the Abilities Profile Interpretation System?
200
Two scores contrast and shows a relative strength and a relative weakness
What is the C ability profile?
200
Compares an individual’s performance with that of other individuals who are the same age.
What is an Standard Age Score (SAS)?
200
Verbal ,Quantitative and Nonverbal Batteries
What three batteries make up the CogAT?
200
Allows you to compare a student’s performance on the test with that of a national sample of students in the same age group.
What is the Age Norms?
200
The number of questions a student answers correctly on a test.
What is a raw score?
300
Indicates extreme score differences, where two scores differ by 24 or more points on the standard age score scale.
What is the E ability profile?
300
This score indicates the relative standing of a student in comparison to other students in a particular norm group.
What is a Percentile Rank (PR)?
300
Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, and
Number Series
What are the three sub-tests that make up the Quantitative Battery of CogAT?
300
Allows you to compare a particular student’s performance on the test with that of a national sample of other students in the same grade group.
What are Grade Norms?
300
The meaning of the symbol # on a score report.
What are too few items attempted?
400
About 42% of students have this ability profile.
What is the B ability profile?
400
A normalized standard score scale consisting of nine broad levels designated by the numbers 1 (lowest) through 9 (highest) in which the average score is 5.
What is a Stanine (S)?
400
This test is used first, to identify academically talented students who may need further evaluation for placement.
What is the Screening Form?
400
Allows you to compare a particular student’s performance on the test with that of other students in the same grade group in the same school or school district.
What are Local Norms?
400
For an individual student, CogAT test results are presented as numerical scores, in bar graphs, and in written, narrative form. An area of report is reserved for a standardized message.
What is the Student Profile Narrative Report?
500
The number in the ability profile, for example 4B(V-)
What is a stanine?
500
This score is a normalized standard score with a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 21.06.
What is a Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE)?
500
General abilities that enable individuals to process information accurately and appropriately across a wide range of cognitive tasks
What is fluid ability (Gf)?
500
Age Norms and Grade Norms
What are the two types of norms provided on the CogAT?