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Cognitive Abilities Test



What is CATS?

The Cognitive Abilities Test (CATS)is an assessment of a range

of reasoning skills. It is the most

widely used test of reasoningability in the United Kingdom.



What are reasoning skills?They are how a child:

a) lists relevant choices,

b) identifies potential consequences of eachchoice,c) assesses the likelihood of each consequence

actually occurring,

d) determines the importance of theseconsequences, ande) combines all this information to decide which

choice is the most appealing



CATS range of reasoning skills

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Verbal = words

!

Quantitative = numbers

! Non-verbal = shapes



Verbal Reasoning(thinking with words)

! Identifying relationships between things!

‘big’ is the opposite of ‘small’!

Creating correlations between these things!

‘big’ is to ‘small’ as ‘thick’ is to ‘thin’! Identifying classes

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‘hat’, ‘gloves’, ____?!

Reasoning deductively!

'A' is taller than 'B' and 'B' is taller than 'C'; therefore'A' is taller than 'C'



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Quantitative Reasoning(thinking with numbers)

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Rules of analogy! 2->3, 9->10, 6->_? (7)

! Determining patterns and relationships in series! 1, 4, 7, _? (10)

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Combining elements to form number sentences! 2 3 4 + -: 0 2 4 5 7 4 + 3 – 2 = 5



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Nonverbal Reasoning(reasoning using shapes and figures)

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Multiple Choice Questions where the child mustcomplete the original shape with a choice frombelow.

! Because these questions require no knowledge of

English language, or the number system, they areparticularly useful when assessing children withpoor English language skills.



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teaching and learning process.

! Guidance in organisation of classes.

! Builds understanding of individual student’spotential.

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Guides teachers to a student’s learning style.! Identifies pupils’ strengths, needs and learning

preferences.



How are students grouped?Students are grouped by age:

CATS level Age groupA 7;6 – 8;5

B 8;6 – 9;5

C 9;6 - 10;5

D 10;6 – 11;5

E 11;6 – 12;5

F 12;6 – 13;5



What happens on assessment day?! Students arrive at school and are given a computer

and headphones set.! They are assessed either in their classrooms

(Primary) or the Learning Hub (Middle).! There are three sections: Verbal, Quantitative, Non-verbal.

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Each section has three subsections with 5 minutesbreak in between these subsections.

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Directions & two examples are given at the beginningof each subsection by the CATS test programme.! Each subsection consists of 20 questions.! Assessment time: approximately 2.5 hours



Raw Score

The raw score is simply thetotal number of correctanswers obtained by the

student.



Standard Age Score

! The average standard age score(SAS) for any age group is always100.

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The average range is plus or minus15 points so the average range is 85– 115 points.



What is the ‘average range’?

The average range is where 70%

of all student’s scores are

found when compared to

their peers of the same age.



What CATS is and is not?NOT IS

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It is not an IQ test.

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It is not curriculumbased.

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It measurespotential.

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It identifies astudent’s strengths& weaknesses.



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