The CogAT Dashboard consists of several tools on one browser screen allowing the user to make selections that display results instantly.
The Student Roster window can be found by scrolling to the bottom of the browser window once logged in. This data can assist educators in qualifying students for gifted or other special programs, differentiating instruction for all students, seeing how their student body compares against the national normative curve, and answering many other ability-related questions.
Using the report
Clicking on any student name in the Student Roster will pull up a window that shows that student’s basic information, including age, birthdate, class, school, and Ability Profile (if available).
Clicking any of the numbers found in the Content Area table, Cut Score tool, or Ability Profile Distribution table will populate the Student Roster with filtered lists of students matching those criteria.
Clicking on any column heading will sort the student list by that score.
The Score Warning button allows users to only view students with scores that have selected warnings including “Too Few Items Attempted”, “Inconsistent Response Pattern”, and others.
The Score button allows users to select up to three scores to view side-by-side.
The Filter button allows users to select up to three criteria to focus on a specific range of scores or combination of scores. This can be done with multiple scores and content areas.
Available scores
| Score | Description |
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APR |
A score of 1–99, converted from the Standard Age Score (SAS). It shows the student’s relative rank compared to other students of the same age (in months) at the time of testing from the national normative sample. |
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SAS |
Normalised standard scores, having a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16, provided for each battery and composite on the CogAT. They range from 50 to 160 on Forms 7 and 8. |
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GPR |
A score of 1–99, converted from the Standard Age Score (SAS). It shows the student’s relative rank compared to other students in the same grade level from the national normative sample who took the test at the same time of year. |
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LPR Local Percentile Rank |
A score of 1-99, converted from the Standard Age Score (SAS). It shows the student’s relative rank compared to other students in the same test event. |
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AS GS LS |
A stanine is one of nine broad score groupings on a normalised standard score scale and range from 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest).
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RS Raw Score |
The number of items a student answered correctly. |
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USS |
A continuous growth scale of cognitive development from kindergarten through grade 12 which is then converted into SAS and GPR. |
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NA/NI |
The number of items a given student attempted next to the total number of items in that section or test. Useful for determining how many items a student skipped. |