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[quote=Anonymous]Is anyone able to explain how the scoring works on the Cogat?  I am confused by the raw scores vs standard age scores.  For example, my child got 49 problems correct out of 52 for the Nonverbal.  But his age score is 129.  He missed only 3 problems.  For Quantitative, 46 right out of 50 and 131.  What I am puzzled by is that seems like a pretty good result when looking at the raw scores but he still didn't make the cutoff in those subtest areas for AAP pool.  Does that mean it's fairly common for children to score perfectly on those sections?  Yet with verbal he got 51/54 and age score is 138.  VQN is 137.  How is VQN figured?

I am particularly puzzled because another child took the Cogat before the Fairfax version and that child had similar scores in two of the subtests but missed way more questions.  I know they are supposed to be different tests somehow but shouldn't the scoring match up? The number of problems in each subtest is the same.  Or is that what makes the Fairfax Cogat different now?  As an example, on the old test one child missed 8 problems on the Nonverbal and still scored 4 points higher in the age score (133) on the subtest than this year's child who only missed 3 and got 129.  129 doesn't even meet the pool cutoff for that subtest but 133 did a few years ago.

So if anyone has any knowledge on how to understand the scoring, I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts.  I do understand how the local scores work and how that is different from the old test.  The older child doesn't have those on the report anyway.  But is the age standard score now different too?  Because the children are only being compared to Ffax students?

Would the 2nd grade teacher or AAT be able to answer these questions?  But I know they are really busy with end of quarter/snow day schedule shifting/file prep right now.  [/quote]

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