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Download full textWilson, Barry; Hewett, Gilbert – 1981
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) provides separate ability estimates organized into three components; verbal, quantitative and non-verbal. There is no composite score. An analysis of scores obtained on the CAT and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) by a sample student population indicated that discrepancies of twenty points or more among the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests
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This article describes a longitudinal analysis of a nationally representative cohort of over 80,000 pupils in England who completed both national end of Key Stage 2 (KS2) tests and the Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) at age 11 in 1997, national end of Key Stage 3 (KS3) tests at age 14 in summer 2000 and General Certificate of Secondary Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictive Validity, Scores, Cognitive Ability
