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• Language-reduced and nonverbal options
• Language-neutral item types and multiple languages
• Large print, untimed, and other helpful accommodations 

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• Test with local norms
• Report on an alternative verbal scale 
• Get value and equity from your universal screening

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• Use score profiles to help differentiate instruction
• Take your data beyond the cut score
• Useful data for every classroom

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The Myth of Culture-Fair Tests

Options for Language-Reduced and Nonverbal Administration of CogAT

Evidence-Based Suggestions for How to Set Up Universal Screening

CogAT In Action: Case Studies

Mankato Public Schools

Learn how CogAT helped
Mankato Public Schools promote diversity in gifted and talented program identification.

Richardson ISD

See how Richardson ISD,
the second most diverse district in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth metro area, used CogAT for universal screening.

Best Practices for Promoting Diversity in Gifted and Talented Identification

Why and How to
Use Local Norms

by Joni Lakin, Ph.D

Excellence in Identification Using
Multiple Measures for Equity

The Essentials: Using Ability
Tests in Gifted and Talented
Identification Programs

by Joni Lakin, Ph.D

Identifying English Learner Students for Gifted and Talented Programming

Program Diversity and
the Alternative Verbal
Scale of CogAT Form 7

by Joni Lakin, Ph.D