The Riverside Insights DataManager™ platform, on which CogAT online is delivered, uses particular terminology to refer to different aspects of the testing process:
Student roster
The student roster contains the data of every student being assessed in a given period or testing window (for example, ‘Greenville Primary School April 2025’). All students being tested during the same period can be added to the one roster, irrespective of their classes and year levels.
Creating your roster and then adding students (either in bulk or individually) are the first steps in preparing to test.
Recommendation
Creating a single Student Roster per Test Event will make it simpler to manage your testing.
Test event
A test event typically occurs once per academic year and up to once per term. The test event contains test sessions and student data. One test event allows you to manage multiple testing sessions. Test events make it easier to organise and manage testing for numerous groups of students within a period of time.
Test assignment
This is the process of assigning the relevant test batteries (verbal, non-verbal, and quantitative) and sub-tests to students within the test event.
Test assignments specify year levels to be tested, test groups, and locations. Assignments are subsets of test events. They narrow the content and levels of the larger event, and they connect test events to test sessions.
Note
CogAT test levels will be assigned to students automatically according to their grade (year) level.
Test session
The test session comprises the actual administration of the test to a group of students. Test sessions are set up within test assignments in DataManager. They are then accessed by the proctor of the session (the Proctor, Teacher, or Admin role) and used to administer the actual tests.
Sessions include approving students for testing, helping students to log on for online testing, monitoring the progress of online testers, and concluding the tests.
A test session can be created, started, paused, and ended by a teacher or staff member within the DataManager™ platform.
Once a test session is started, students are able to log in to the test site and complete the test.