Guest matt5202 Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 My daughter's 4th grade testing showed a CogAT Ability Profile 7E(V+) (Significant strength in verbal reasoning) and her 5th grade testing showed a CogAT Ability Profile 9E(V-) (Significant weakness in verbal reasoning). I understand that the testing really isn’t saying she has a weakness in verbal reasoning but is a weakness when compared with her nonverbal and quantitative reasoning. I believe I fully understand the scales and how the profile was arrived at- my question is how can this be valid? One year it shows verbal as her strength (at the 97th percentile) and the very next year verbal shows as a weakness (it has to be at least 24 percentile points below one of the other two domains). this makes no sense to me. Is it even possible that such differences could come from valid testing? I now feel like the testing is not valid and should be thrown out the window. If it helps anyone to address my question/concerns my daughter gets good grades across the board. Where might a get such a question answered? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 The CogAT is just a screening tool. It is not an IQ test even though it is often used as such. It does not provide a "valid" IQ score. IME, the CogAT is not particularly precise (*ahem* to put it mildly), and for two of my kids was way, way, way off in comparison to actual one-on-one private ability testing with a psych. For the purposes of an identifier of gifted kids at least, it probably misses as many as it catches. If you have questions, such as whether your daughter is being appropriately challenged or truly has significant differences between relative strengths and weaknesses, I'd look to private IQ testing with an ed psych, which is not inexpensive but can be quite worthwhile for certain kids/situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 The CogAT is just a screening tool. It is not an IQ test even though it is often used as such. It does not provide a "valid" IQ score. IME, the CogAT is not particularly precise (*ahem* to put it mildly), :iagree: We have to test annually, and it is on the approved list, so I did it just to see if we had some screaming weakness or strength I, a novice teacher, didn't notice. We didn't, but for more "fine tuning" I wasn't impressed by the test. I was perfectly happy finding out I have a Standard U.S. Issue Boy. I happen to like that breed. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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