Transcript CogAT 7 Cognitive Abilities Test

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Please sit in
a group that
has teachers
from each
building
CogAT 7
Cognitive Abilities Test
Shakopee Public Schools
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Sign-in
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Goals for our CogAT session
 Quick
 Try
review of what and why
some questions
 How
to administer
 How
to analyze results – see sample reports
 Results
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How to read reports
Sharing with parents – conferences, newsletters, web…
Practice a parent-teacher conference
 Questions
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I know what you’re thinking…..
+ Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)
 Tests
learned reasoning abilities… not
specific content
 Reasoning abilities are developed through
in-school & out-of-school experiences
 3 Sections
1. Verbal
2. Quantitative
3. Nonverbal
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Why Administer?
 Rounds
out our assessment system
Criterion referenced – MCA testing, standard
classroom assessments… “does the student know the
grade-level, standards-based material?”
 Norm referenced – NWEA\MAP… performance is
based on a comparison to a normed group. The test
adapts\adjusts to how well the student is performing...
Essentially no ceiling.
 Ability based – CogAT requires students to
demonstrate their reasoning abilities in each of three
areas most closely related to success in school
 Verbal Reasoning
 Quantitative Reasoning
 NonVerbal Reasoning
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Interpretation Guide
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Why Administer?
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Primary uses of CogAT scores
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To help us adapt instruction to the individual needs and abilities
of students
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Provides a measure of cognitive development that captures
information not represented in school grades or other
achievement measures
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To identify students whose predicted level of achievement or
markedly discrepant from observed achievement levels.
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HP identification…we are missing students. The demographic makeup of our HP programming is out of line with our population in whole.
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I-Team… does performance match predicted achievement? If not, what
else can we do?
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Current Numbers
6th Grade Math, Breakdown by Ethnic Group…2014-15
4th Grade HP Breakdown by Ethnic Group….2014-15
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 Assesses
student ability to use search,
retrieval and comparison processes that are
essential for Verbal Reasoning
 Picture
Analogies
 Sentence Completion
 Picture Classification
+ Quantitative
 Assesses
student ability to reason about patterns &
relations using concepts essential to quantitative
thinking.
 Number
Analogies
 Number Puzzles
 Number Series
+ NonVerbal
 Assesses
student ability to reason with more novel
questions that use spatial and figural content.
 Figure
Matrices
 Paper Folding
 Figure Classification
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Logistics
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Grade 2 only
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Dates – Assessment Window December 1-19, 2014
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Training – October 15 PD day
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Administration
Interpretation and use of results
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Parent Communication – letter and\or a paragraph or two that
can be included in classroom newsletters will be provided.
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Questions?
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Dave Orlowsky x5022 or by email
Katie Johnson x 5049 – call Katie first with technical questions
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Demonstration of Process
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It looks like this….
Data Manager – link on Shakopee Website
One Teacher
Computer
“controls” all
the student
computers in
the lab
Secure Browser – Icon on desktop
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Demonstration of Process
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Go to lab
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Setup session on teacher computer (do not use Chrome)– I will do
it here – write the session code on the board
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Students double click secure browser icon…. Or have this done in
lab before.
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Students login using lunch code\ID number and session code –
session codes expire each night at midnight
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Teacher “approves” students for testing
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Teacher starts and runs the session
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Teacher stays logged-in as long as class is testing
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Administration
 Test
Event – G2 CogAT December 2014 (I create)
 Test
Assignment – which test\level students take (I create)
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Session (you create) – consider this like passing out
booklets – so you will “virtually” pass out 4 different
booklets (naming convention building-teacher-topic)
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Getting Started – 1st trip to lab (JA-Hartman-Getting Started)
Verbal – 1st trip to lab (JA-Hartman-Verbal)
Quantitative – 2nd (JA-Hartman-Quantitative)
Non-Verbal – 3rd (JA-Hartman-NonVerbal)
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Estimated times….oops,
minutes 
times (in hours)
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Accommodations – what? how?
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Accommodations – what? how?
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Use of Results
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See your copies….
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minutes… what do you think?
 Share
with a partner
 Pretend
it is a conference
+ Class report–share out & questions
+ Individual report-share & questions
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Stanine Chart – guess what it looks like
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1-pager on reading student profile
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How do you read the codes….
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Reports - interpretation
See 2 main resources on Data & Testing website
1. Interpretation Guide
2. Online Interpretation tool
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Use of Results – Multiple Purposes
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Additional interpretation resources
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One
thing I learned
How
do I see myself using the CogAT?
One
question I still have
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THANK YOU!
Enjoy the day and
long weekend.