Understanding COGAT score presentation

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Understanding COGAT score

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COGAT Overview

• COGAT is a multiple-choice test which appraises
  general abstract reasoning abilities. It is not
  an IQ test but measures learned reasoning
  abilities of a student. It focuses on specific
  reasoning areas linked to school success.

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Understanding COGAT score

• With the information gained from the COGAT tests,
  teachers can gain valuable insight that can help
  them assist and teach their students more
  effectively. Teachers are well versed at
  interpreting CogAT test scores. But even parents
  can how to interpret these numbers.

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The following explanation for various parts of
COGAT test scores will help parents to understand
their childs performance

• Abilities
• Standard Age Scores
• Stanine Age Scores
• Age Percentile Rank
• APR Graph
• Grade scores
• Local scores
• CoGAT profile

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• Abilities The CogAT, as earlier mentioned, tests
  three different types of cognitive
  abilities. Verbal section evaluates your childs
  ability to remember and change sequences of
  English words. Quantitative portion test childs
  ability to find relationships among numbers
  and equations are measured. Nonverbal part
  examines the reasoning skills of your child when
  it does not involve words at all. Your child may
  be asked to choose which shapes are most alike.
• Standard Age Scores These scores compare your
  child to the other students in their age group.
  Talk about homework expectations
• Stanine Age Scores This score gives a clearer
  idea of your childs ranking among others of
  their age. The score ranges from a low of 1 to a
  high of 9.

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• Age Percentile Rank This gives a specific idea
  of how the child ranks among their age group in
  the entire country.
• Standard Age Scores These scores compare your
  child to the other students in their age group.
  Talk about homework expectations
• APR Graph Age Scores It is simply a graph which
  shows your childs age percentile rank.
• Raw scores This part gives three numbers for
  each test portion. These numbers represent the
  number of questions on the test, the number of
  questions your child tried to answer, and the
  number of correct answers for each portion.

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• Grade scores Percentile Rank These explain how
  your child compares to other students in the same
  age group in the entire country.
• Local scores These explain how your child
  compares to other students in the same age group
  in the same school system.
• CogAT profile The various scores for all the
  portions of the test as a whole also gives the
  profile for the child. With the profile,
  appropriate measures can then be taken so that
  your child gets the right kind of educational
  help from the teachers.

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