Tests
What tests do you use?
Cognitive ability tests measures how students process information to reach a solution, and results are based upon each student’s level of cognitive development. Cognitive ability tests measure general and specific reasoning skills in three areas: verbal, quantitative and non-verbal/spatial reasoning. Questions require reasoning skills and are not academic in nature.
CogAT 7/8 Testing Level
Listed below is the test level that we use for your child’s current grade (testing in winter) or for the grade that your child just completed (testing in summer). Please note that the table below represents a test level one grade level above the grade of enrollment. Each subtest is timed at 10 minutes. A small break is given after each battery (three 10 minute subtests).
Grade | Level | Method |
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1 | 8 | Computer-based, paced* *up to 15 minutes each subtest |
3 | 10 | Computer-based, timed |
4 | 11 | Computer-based, timed |
5 | 12 | Computer-based, timed |
6 | 13 | Computer-based, timed |
7 | 14 | Computer-based, timed |
8 | 15 | Computer-based, timed |
9 | 16 | Computer-based, timed |
10 | 17 | Computer-based, timed |
11 | 18 | Computer-based, timed |
CogAT Form 7/8 Batteries
Battery | Subtests |
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Verbal | Picture/Verbal Analogies Sentence Completion Picture/Verbal Classification |
Quantitative | Number Analogies Number Series Number Puzzles |
Nonverbal | Figure Matrices Figure Classifications Paper Folding |
NGAT Testing Level
The NGAT is administered at grade level. Each test starts out with easier questions and increases in difficulty as students’ progress through the questions. Each test (verbal, non-verbal and quantitative) is considered its own unique test (no subtests). There are 40 questions per test. Students in grades K – 2 have 30 minutes for each test.
Grade | Method |
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K | Computer-based, timed |
2 | Computer-based, timed |
The Star Assessments and Iowa Assessments measure skills that are taught and practiced in school.
Star Testing Level
The Star is administered at grade level, because it is adaptive, thus moving students to higher level questions based upon successful completion of grade level questions. Each subtest (Reading and Mathematics) is timed at 30 minutes for students in grades 1 – 8.
Advanced Learning collects score data from the three most recent Star test events, administered at the school, if available.
BSD students in grades 3 – 5 take Star Reading in the Fall, Winter and Spring of each year. Students in grades 6 – 8 take it in the Fall and Spring of each year.
BSD students in grades 2 – 5 take the Star Math in the Fall, Winter and Spring of each year. Students in grades 6 – 8 take it in the Fall and Spring of each year.
The Star Reading and Math Assessments will be administered to private/home-school students in grades 1 – 8 on their assigned test date.
Iowa Testing Level
Listed below is the test level that we use for your child’s current grade (testing in winter) or for the grade that your child just completed (testing in summer). Please note that the table below represents a test level one grade level above the grade of enrollment. Each subtest (Reading and Mathematics) is timed at 40 minutes for students in grades 9 – 11. A small break is given after each subtest.
Grade | Level | Method |
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9 | 16 | Computer-based, timed |
10 | 17 | Computer-based, timed |
11 | 18 | Computer-based, timed |