Apparently we're getting CogAT this week

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Just posted for us…

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Curious for others — how do percentiles for your kids line up to MAP? My 99th percentile MAP-R kid is in the mid-80’s for CoGAT. Not sure what to make of that… (math is aligned though)

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Anonymous wrote:Curious for others — how do percentiles for your kids line up to MAP? My 99th percentile MAP-R kid is in the mid-80’s for CoGAT. Not sure what to make of that… (math is aligned though)

My 99th percentile CoGAT kid, in both quantitative and verbal, was 96th in both MAP-R and MAP-M in the winter.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious for others — how do percentiles for your kids line up to MAP? My 99th percentile MAP-R kid is in the mid-80’s for CoGAT. Not sure what to make of that… (math is aligned though)

Cogat and Map are different things. Cogat measures their reasoning logic skills and about how well they can think but not what they know. Map measures their knowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious for others — how do percentiles for your kids line up to MAP? My 99th percentile MAP-R kid is in the mid-80’s for CoGAT. Not sure what to make of that… (math is aligned though)

My kid was low90s MAP-R and high 80s verbal cogat.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious for others — how do percentiles for your kids line up to MAP? My 99th percentile MAP-R kid is in the mid-80’s for CoGAT. Not sure what to make of that… (math is aligned though)

Cogat and Map are different things. Cogat measures their reasoning logic skills and about how well they can think but not what they know. Map measures their knowledge.

I get that for math, but verbal seems like it should be similar? Both tests are about reading comprehension was my understanding?

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Unsure how to read these scores! Any help is appreciated.

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Anonymous wrote:Unsure how to read these scores! Any help is appreciated.

There are 3 sub scores (quantitative, verbal, nonverbal) and the the overall composite. The score is a normalized Z-score (mean by age/grade is 100 with a standard deviation of 16)— basically plotting your kid on a normal distribution. Percentile and stanine basically show where in the distribution your kid falls. It presents it for both age and grade.

The score profile at the bottom gives a profile on where your kid is and if you go on the cogat website gives you a description of how to think about your kids strengths and needs

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Anonymous wrote:Unsure how to read these scores! Any help is appreciated.

Testing Mom has. A good explainer here: https://www.testingmom.com/tests/cogat-test/how-is-the-cogat-scored/amp/

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What could this 3rd grader work on? He will be in CES and compacted math. I am worried what that "verbal" low score below mean? Why composite score is still in 92 percentile given really low verbal score?

MAP M winter 99 percentile, 240
MAP R winter, 87 percentile, 212

Cogat, verbal
(73 percentile, verbal, 110)
(94 percentile, quantitative, 125)
(93 percentile, nonverbal, 124)
(92 percentile, composite, 122)
Overall 8B (V-)

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Anonymous wrote:What could this 3rd grader work on? He will be in CES and compacted math. I am worried what that "verbal" low score below mean? Why composite score is still in 92 percentile given really low verbal score?

MAP M winter 99 percentile, 240
MAP R winter, 87 percentile, 212

Cogat, verbal
(73 percentile, verbal, 110)
(94 percentile, quantitative, 125)
(93 percentile, nonverbal, 124)
(92 percentile, composite, 122)
Overall 8B (V-)

I’m sure your son will be fine at the CES but I’m truly surprised he qualified with a 87th percentile. Are you at a high FARMs school?

Your kid is smart but not in the top gifted (stanine of 9)

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Anonymous wrote:What could this 3rd grader work on? He will be in CES and compacted math. I am worried what that "verbal" low score below mean? Why composite score is still in 92 percentile given really low verbal score?

MAP M winter 99 percentile, 240
MAP R winter, 87 percentile, 212

Cogat, verbal
(73 percentile, verbal, 110)
(94 percentile, quantitative, 125)
(93 percentile, nonverbal, 124)
(92 percentile, composite, 122)
Overall 8B (V-)

The V- minus means it's lower than the others, but it's not "low" it's a bit above average while the others are a fair bit higher.

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Which score is the math one?

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Anonymous wrote:Which score is the math one?

Really?

….

Quantitative (which means having to do with numbers…)

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Did anyone else’s kid get an “E” profile? My kid did fine but has a big gap between their quant/non-verbal scores and their verbal score. Reading online it seems like that indicates an issue? Trying to figure out what it means….