CogAt: Raw score vs. Standard Age Score

[Anonymous]

Would anyone be willing to share your child's raw scores vs. standard age scores? Also, could you mention if your child is being compared with students who are 7 years and 1 month old or 8 years and 1 month old? I am trying to get an idea of what my child's standard age score would have been had he been compared with students in the same grade as him. I think he may have been placed in the wrong age group, but I cannot call the school system until after the long weekend.

Example:
Age group: 8 years and 1 month

Quantitative Raw Score: 47/50
Quantitative Standard Age Score: 134

Nonverbal Raw Score: 50/52
Nonverbal Standard Age Score: 131

Verbal Raw Score: 42/54
Verbal Standard Age Score: 109 (I know this is low. Please don't make rude comments. This is usually my child's strongest area in school and in standardized testing. I'm not sure what happened.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone be willing to share your child's raw scores vs. standard age scores? Also, could you mention if your child is being compared with students who are 7 years and 1 month old or 8 years and 1 month old? I am trying to get an idea of what my child's standard age score would have been had he been compared with students in the same grade as him. I think he may have been placed in the wrong age group, but I cannot call the school system until after the long weekend.

Example:
Age group: 8 years and 1 month

Quantitative Raw Score: 47/50
Quantitative Standard Age Score: 134

Nonverbal Raw Score: 50/52
Nonverbal Standard Age Score: 131

Verbal Raw Score: 42/54
Verbal Standard Age Score: 109 (I know this is low. Please don't make rude comments. This is usually my child's strongest area in school and in standardized testing. I'm not sure what happened.)

I didn't include the composite score. It was 130.

[Anonymous]

How old is your child?

[Anonymous]

Geez, OP, you must chill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geez, OP, you must chill.

I'm not upset. I'm just trying to figure out his scores since he was put in the wrong age category. Maybe you should chill.

[Anonymous]

Your kid wasn't 8 years and 1 month at time of testing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone be willing to share your child's raw scores vs. standard age scores? Also, could you mention if your child is being compared with students who are 7 years and 1 month old or 8 years and 1 month old? I am trying to get an idea of what my child's standard age score would have been had he been compared with students in the same grade as him. I think he may have been placed in the wrong age group, but I cannot call the school system until after the long weekend.

Example:
Age group: 8 years and 1 month

Quantitative Raw Score: 47/50
Quantitative Standard Age Score: 134

Nonverbal Raw Score: 50/52
Nonverbal Standard Age Score: 131

Verbal Raw Score: 42/54
Verbal Standard Age Score: 109 (I know this is low. Please don't make rude comments. This is usually my child's strongest area in school and in standardized testing. I'm not sure what happened.)

109 is NOT low. It is above average. Please stop thinking that it is low.

[Anonymous]

I've seen info. on the internet about interpreting the age scores that indicate the comparitive group is a one-month interval and another that says it is a 3 month interval.

OP -- are you thinking that your child was compared to a group more than 3 mos. different than his actual age at the time of testing?

[Anonymous]

OP -- just saw what appears to be your post on another thread. Your child was 8 yrs. and 27 days old at the time of the test and you are concerned that he/she was compared to kids who were 8 yrs. and 1 month old at the time of the test, right?

I mean this in all seriousness... DO NOT contact the school with your concern. You will look like a crazy person. Since your child missed the pool by one or two points, just do the parent referral and see what happens. You know the verbal score is significantly below what the AAP reviewers like to see. So, you know that would likely be the reason if your child is not admitted. If your child IS admitted, that may turn out to be a reason he struggles with the curriculum.

At this point, all you need to do is fill out the referral and wait patiently. Do NOT argue that your child was not fairly compared when he was within a few days of actually being 8 yrs. and one month. For all you know, they may consider anyone over the 15th day or 20th day as being the next month. Breathe!

[Anonymous]

"Age Norms. The age norms for CogAT extend from 4 years and 11 months to 18 or more years. When the Riverside Scoring Service® scores CogAT, students are grouped by age in one-month intervals from 4 years and 11 months through 18+ years. When tests are hand scored using the CogAT Form 6 Norms Booklet, three-month intervals are used."

I'm guessing these tests in FCPS are not hand scored and therefore it is a one-month interval.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP -- just saw what appears to be your post on another thread. Your child was 8 yrs. and 27 days old at the time of the test and you are concerned that he/she was compared to kids who were 8 yrs. and 1 month old at the time of the test, right?

I mean this in all seriousness... DO NOT contact the school with your concern. You will look like a crazy person. Since your child missed the pool by one or two points, just do the parent referral and see what happens. You know the verbal score is significantly below what the AAP reviewers like to see. So, you know that would likely be the reason if your child is not admitted. If your child IS admitted, that may turn out to be a reason he struggles with the curriculum.

At this point, all you need to do is fill out the referral and wait patiently. Do NOT argue that your child was not fairly compared when he was within a few days of actually being 8 yrs. and one month. For all you know, they may consider anyone over the 15th day or 20th day as being the next month. Breathe!

If this is true, OP, you really should calm down. Do you really think this would suck a huge difference?