1. CogAT Teacher Training

2. What Is CogAT?
Cognitive Abilities Test

3. Who do we test? October—Grades 2 and 5 take the full CogAT
Three complete batteries
about 1 hour per battery
3 hours total (over 3 different school days)
December—Kinder takes a screener CogAT
Three screener batteries
about 1 hour total in 1 school day

4. How do we use it in GCISD?
One data point for ASPIRE student identification
State requirement that all Kinder students be screened for GT identification
Instructional tools based on student abilities
We need to focus on this when working with data following the administration.

5. Remember
Student cognitive abilities can develop as a student progresses in his/her education.
Scores are valid for 2 years.

6. What does the test look like?
Computer-based assessment that must be administered over a wired internet connection
Proctor-Led or Audio-Led
Proctor-Led=teacher reads each question to the class, after all students have responded, you read the next question.
Teacher may translate directions/question into Spanish
Self-paced=students wear headphones and hear the question read by the computer
Both Spanish and English audio-led assessments are available

7. How long does it take? Verbal Battery Level 8 Grade 2 Level 11 Grade 5
Picture
Analogies 13 10
Sentence Completion 14
Picture Classification

8. How long does it take? Quantitative Battery Level 8 Grade 2 Level 11
Number
Analogies 15 10
Puzzles
Series

9. How long does it take? Nonverbal Battery Level 8 Grade 2 Level 11
Figure
Matrices 13 10
Paper
Folding 11
Classification

10. Getting Ready to Test Log in to the CogAT/Riverside Data Manager site.
User ID (UID) is your GCISD address
Password (PW) can be reset using the provided “forgot password” link

11. Accommodations? Oral for all students Untimed for all students
Audio available in English and Spanish
Small group allowed
No calculators/calculation devices
Repeated directions are allowed for all
Proctor may repeat
Or student can have the computer repeat the directions
Sentence Completion may be omitted for ELLs
If not appropriate, the ARD committee can choose that a student not test.

13. Click on the Navigation Button. Select “Assessments”

14. Click on the blue button.
DO NOT click on the blue underlined name of the session until it is time to test.
This starts the session; it expires 24 hours from being started and will have to be re-created.
Find your test session and session code.

15. Day of Testing Log into RiversideDataManager.com
Note your session code; write it on the board.
Log all student computers on using
UID: xxxtesting (xxx=your campus 3 letter code)
(testtaker, with capital T’s
Find the CogAT Lockdown Browser on the student desktop. Launch it.
Students log in on the right with their GCISD # and the Session Code.
A “Draw Here” screen appears for students to use while waiting to start testing.
The students need to check for their name at the top of the Draw Here page.

16. Feel free to delete this slide, but please discuss this.
Be patient, last year there were some pages that took a while to load. Just breathe and wait.
Don’t click, click, click until you READ, READ, READ.
Many phone calls had to be placed last year because students were inadvertently marked as having completed a subtest, when they had not completed it, but instead an understandably frustrated and impatient teacher clicked without really reading what was being clicked.

17. Once all students are in:
Approve all students.
Walk around to actively monitor students.
Each student must hit submit.
When all students in a subtest have completed testing, you can
Continue Testing All—advance to next subtest (Be sure this is what you want to do)
End Testing All—stop testing. Students will have to log in with a new session code.

18. Directions for Online Administration
Grade 5
Grades K, 2

19. Pages to Reference in Manuals
Level 5/6-8 Manual
Level 9-17 Manual
Accommodations
p. 7
p.7
Troubleshooting
p. 12
Pretesting Checklist
p.15
p. 14
Administer the Tests p
p.15-28
About the Proctor Led Tab
p. 32
p. 30
Adding a Student to a Roster
p.43
p.42

20. Log into School Wires to View Resources on the Assessment and Accountability Page.