CogAT Nonverbal case studies
CogAT Nonverbal · Put your knowledge to work in context.
CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test) is a K–12 cognitive abilities assessment published by Riverside Insights. It is used by schools rather than by individual candidates registering for a professional credential, and it is designed to measure students' abilities so educators can identify potential and maximize achievement. The CogAT Nonverbal case studies are 5 cases and about 3,604 words.
1Thirteen Word Cards and One Leftover
During a 20-minute reasoning station, 22 Grade 3 students work in pairs with an identical set of 13 word cards: oak, pine, maple, cedar, robin, eagle, sparrow, wren, trout, salmon, bass, perch, bat. The printed direction reads, 'Make three groups of four.
723 words, about 4 min2Two Answers That Both Work on the Number-Analogy Warm-Up
A Grade 4 teacher writes three number analogies for a ten-minute warm-up and projects each with four options. Twenty-four students answer on whiteboards.
697 words, about 3 min3The Matrix Item With a Colour Flip in the Bottom Row
The nonverbal item under review is a 3 × 3 matrix with eight cells filled and the bottom-right cell missing. Row 1: a white circle containing one black dot; a white circle containing two black dots; a white circle containing three black dots.
720 words, about 4 min4A Fold-and-Punch Item With Four Holes and Three Options
The item reads: 'A square sheet of paper 8 cm on each side is folded so that the left half lies exactly on the right half, then folded again so that the bottom half lies exactly on the top half. The packet is now one quarter of the original size.
736 words, about 4 min5A 32-Point Verbal-Nonverbal Gap in Grade 4
A Grade 4 team meets in March to decide whether a student, Mira, should enter the Grade 5 high-verbal-ability cluster. Mira has been in an English-medium school for two years and four months; her home language is Ukrainian and her ACCESS level is 3.2.
728 words, about 4 min