NNAT v. CogAT

[Anonymous]

I realize this is just a guess, but which do you think is (or should be) weighted more and why?

[Anonymous]

CogAT is considered a fuller picture, but NNAT is excellent for finding gifted kids who may be hampered by language or cultural differences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CogAT is considered a fuller picture, but NNAT is excellent for finding gifted kids who may be hampered by language or cultural differences.

+1. FWIW, both of my kids' IQ test scores are much, much closer to their COGAT scores. But I'd be interested in hearing whether others have found that to be the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CogAT is considered a fuller picture, but NNAT is excellent for finding gifted kids who may be hampered by language or cultural differences.

+1. FWIW, both of my kids' IQ test scores are much, much closer to their COGAT scores. But I'd be interested in hearing whether others have found that to be the case.

See here: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/466413.page

[Anonymous]

My kid bombed both test and then got a 147 FSIQ so who knows.

[Anonymous]

Based on my limited research, the cogat or any verbal/quantitative assessment is much more predictive of academic success and of a child's "abilities" than nnat, a nonverbal test (though cogat does also have nonverbal component as well).

If you google something like "nnat predictive academic success" you can find some actual scholarly research on this and comparison of results of these tests as correlated to student outcomes. From my reading, nnat has almost no predictive value, but can be used to try to include minorities who might otherwise be overlooked (as previous poster mentioned).

I would imagine the AAP admissions committee understands the research and purposes of NNAT. When I look back on old posts, I rarely see a child with a high COGAT/FXAT score being excluded from AAP - though this forum is such a small sample size of applicants (less than 1% of the thousands in the pool/screening group probably post?), and anonymous, so hardly useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CogAT is considered a fuller picture, but NNAT is excellent for finding gifted kids who may be hampered by language or cultural differences.

+1. FWIW, both of my kids' IQ test scores are much, much closer to their COGAT scores. But I'd be interested in hearing whether others have found that to be the case.

This is true for my kid, too.