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    Cognitively Speaking: A Closer Look at Local Norms
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
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    Cognitively Speaking: A Closer Look at Local Norms
    A Deeper Dive into Local Norms Gifted and talented services are most effective when they serve students for whom the standard curriculum is ...
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    K-12 Classroom Assessments
    A super quick read.
    Cognitively Speaking: Why and How to Use Local Norms
    Why do schools need local norms? Case #1 EWS An extremely wealthy suburb (EWS) in the Northeast has a problem. They have “too many gifted st...
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    Implementing Differentiation in the Classroom: 4 Key Questions Answered
    Clinical and Special Education
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
    3 min read
    Implementing Differentiation in the Classroom: 4 Key Questions Answered
    Differentiating instruction has been a topic of conversation among educational researchers and educators alike in recent years. But what is ...
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    Spatially Talented Kids: Using this Time of Remote Learning to Develop an Underappreciated Skillset
    Research, Resources & Insights
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
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    Spatially Talented Kids: Developing an Under-appreciated Skillset
    What is spatial reasoning? Why is it important? Spatial thinking skills include the ability to imagine objects and to change or transform th...
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    Students getting equity from universal screening process
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
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    Getting Value and Equity from Your Universal Screening Process
    The Importance of Using the Right Measures for Universal Screening Evidence suggests that universal screening is the most fair and unbiased ...
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    Measuring Reasoning Skills Among English Learner Students
    Multilingual Learners
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
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    Measuring Reasoning Skills Among English Learner Students
    Ability tests differ from achievement tests. While achievement tests measure classroom learning, ability tests prompt students to demonstrat...
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    Using CogAT Score Profiles to Differentiate Instruction; students waving at camera
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
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    Using CogAT Score Profiles to Differentiate Instruction
    School systems are always trying to make the most of their resources, which includes optimizing the uses and benefits of assessments into wh...
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    Student getting to know the CogAT
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
    A super quick read.
    Getting to Know CogAT
    Watch these videos from CogAT co-author, Dr. Joni Lakin to get an introduction and overview of CogAT.
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    Student using ability tests in gifted and talented identification programs
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
    A super quick read.
    The Essentials: Using Ability Tests in Gifted and Talented Identification Programs
    The Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®) Form 7 introduced many exciting new features such as a revised Primary Battery and new quantitative i...
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    Universal screening in gifted and talented identification student taking test
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
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    Universal Screening in Gifted and Talented Identification: Implementation and Overcoming Challenges
    We’ve been excited to see gifted and talented education in so many popular press articles in recent months. One of the motivators of this su...
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    Introducing Form 8 for CogAT student taking test
    K-12 Classroom Assessments
    A super quick read.
    Introducing Form 8 for CogAT
    We are excited to announce the introduction of CogAT® Form 8, an equivalent form to CogAT Form 7 . Form 8 preserves all of the exciting new ...
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