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The Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®) Form 7 measures students’ learned reasoning abilities in the three areas most linked to academic success in school: Verbal, Quantitative, and Nonverbal. Although its primary goal is to assess students’ reasoning abilities, CogAT also can provide predicted achievement scores when administered with The Iowa Tests.
Reasoning abilities have substantial correlations with learning and problem-solving, both within and outside of school. CogAT’s measurement of three different content domains ensures that educators receive a balanced view of each child. Each level of CogAT offers three test batteries:
Verbal
Quantitative
Nonverbal
For the Primary Edition (Levels K–2), two different subtests measure each reasoning ability. The Multilevel Edition (Levels A-H) uses three different subtests to measure each ability. The use of a different item format on each subtest ensures that scores for each battery are not unduly affected by performance on a particular item type.
Purpose: To provide a description of the student’s own cognitive resources for learning. CogAT measures general reasoning and problem-solving skills and indicates how well the student uses these skills to solve verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal problems. It provides a picture of the student’s reasoning strengths and weaknesses.
Verbal Battery: The Verbal Battery is comprised of three subtests: Verbal Analogies, Verbal Classification, and Sentence Completion. This series of subtests evaluates deductive and inductive reasoning skills as well as flexibility, fluency, and adaptability in working with verbal material and solving verbal problems.
Nonverbal Battery: The Nonverbal Battery is comprised of three subtests: Figure Matrices, Paper Folding, and Figure Classification. The items on these subtests use only geometric shapes and figures that call for novel problem-solving strategies.
Quantitative Battery: The Quantitative Battery is comprised of three subtests: Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, and Number Series. These subtests evaluate deductive and inductive reasoning skills as well as flexibility and fluency in working with quantitative symbols and concepts. The equation-building subtest also evaluates the ability to organize, structure, and give meaning to an unordered set of numerals and mathematical symbols.
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