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2. Photo by Abdullah AL-Naser - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/33685308@N00Created with Haiku Deck Naglieri Nonverbal Test (NNAT2) What it Measures ? General Intellectual Ability – Four Different Types of Non- Verbal Skills Pattern Completions Analogical Reasoning Serial Reasoning Spatial Visualizations

3. Photo by Abdullah AL-Naser - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/33685308@N00Created with Haiku Deck NNAT2 Justification – Grade 2 The state requires school systems to do a mass screening at least once in a student’s school career. APS was the only area school system who did not use an ability test to do this and relied heavily on teacher referrals as our mass screening system. The only way a child received an ability test was to be referred for gifted services. This allowed for bias and potential lack of understanding of characteristics of gifted especially in historically underrepresented populations.

4. Photo by Abdullah AL-Naser - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/33685308@N00Created with Haiku Deck NNAT2- How Can It Help Us Understand Our Students? Helps us measure how capable a student is of learning; it is a measure of potential that may help teachers see strengths in students that may not be evident through schoolwork.

5. Photo by Abdullah AL-Naser - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/33685308@N00Created with Haiku Deck Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) What it Measures ? The Cognitive Abilities Test measures a student’s learned reasoning abilities and potential in the areas of verbal, quantitative and nonverbal domains.

6. Photo by Abdullah AL-Naser - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/33685308@N00Created with Haiku Deck CogAT Justification – Grade 4 Replacement of the Stanford 10 The Stanford measured what students have been taught (either at home or in school), a heavy reliance on these results for identification in gifted services. Did not always capture potential ability to think and problem solve and/or to make cognitive leaps when learning new information which is more in line with giftedness. Using the Stanford was in a sense capturing more “school smart” students while the CogAT measures more for potential.

7. Photo by Abdullah AL-Naser - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/33685308@N00Created with Haiku Deck CogAT - How Can It Help Us Understand Our Students? It will help teachers identify strengths in specific academic abilities as well as potential that may not be seen if we rely heavily on classroom work. While these assessments are one measure to use for screening for potential gifted students, teachers will use the information on a much broader scale to learn more about their students’ potential to help guide the daily instruction and to possibly help them understand a child in a different way if their school work and test scores are not in alignment.