Create CogAT Reports

Data Package: Online or DataPlus

Role: Account Holder, Administrator, Teacher, or Digital Resource & Reporting Access

You can specify criteria and run reports on the Create a Report page.

Report options and availability vary according to the following:

Your role and location. You can create and view reports only for your own location level and those below you.
The tests that have been administered to students, entered in the database, and marked as completed.
The options you select as you move down the list of criteria. As you select options, subsequent fields with dependencies on those options may change. (Common fields that produce these changes include REPORT TYPE, LEVEL OF ANALYSIS, and DISPLAY OPTIONS.) When this happens, the page reloads to display new or adjusted fields.

To create a CogAT® report:

1. Open the Create a Report tab in the Reports Center by doing one of the following:

If you are a Teacher, Administrator, or above, click the Reports menu at the top of the page at any point after signing in. Select Classic if provided a drop-down option.

Note: If your institution has purchased CogAT, you will also see the option to select a Dashboard option. For instructions on this option, see the related introduction and help section.

Reports Center: Create a Report tab

For individuals with Teacher roles and above, you can also open the Create a Report tab from the Test Events Overview page by clicking See reports in the Complete Tasks box.
For reports-only access users, using a web Reporting Key,create your account or sign in to your existing account and enter the Reporting Key. If you have access to multiple locations, enter each new Reporting Key once. Subsequently, you can select the location from a Select Report Criteria for drop-down list at the top of the Create a Report tab.

2. In the ASSESSMENT list, select the test your students took. If there is more than one option, select the one for which you want to run a report.

3. From the TEST ADMIN DATE list, select your test event. Test events are indicated by their date and name. They are sorted by date, most recent first.

4. In the REPORT TYPE list, select the report you want to produce. Short descriptions for each report are provided below, along with links (More...) to fuller descriptions with samples. Click the Instructions link (on the line below More...) to view field-level descriptions and instructions for entering selections in the remaining fields of each report.

Note: Reports and fields are listed here in the same order as they appear on your DataManager platform.

Data Export

Available to users with Account Holder and Administrator roles only. Provides a file in a standard or custom template containing data on test results.

Student Roster

Provides scores by test and composite or skill domain and cognitive level for each student in the selected group.

Multimeasure Student Roster

Allows you to create up to ten columns across multiple test administrations, test types, grades, and levels for each student in a selected group. This report also provides a PERFORMANCE BANDS option, which allows you to specify performance indicator labels and values that color code the test results for each student.

List of Student Scores (Scoring Service Print Style)

Provides a list of each student's test and composite scores for the selected content areas.

Student Profile

Displays a bar graph (with or without Confidence Interval) of test and composite scores for each student in a selected group.

*Confidence Interval: is a confidence band displaying the margin of error for each score.

Student Profile Narrative (Scoring Service Print Style)

Provides test and composite scores for an individual student as well as descriptions to aid in interpreting and using the scores.

Group Roster

Provides test and composite scores or skill domain and cognitive level scores for each selected group—class, building, district, system, region, or state.

Subgroup Roster

Provides test or composite scores for all subgroups or a selected subgroup—gender, federal race/ethnicity, programs, and/or administrator codes.

Group Profile

Displays the average test and composite scores or skill domain and cognitive level scores for the selected group(s)—all classes within a building, for example--in a bar graph.

Group Summary (Scoring Service Print Style)

Provides the average test and composite scores for the selected group.

5. (Optional) Save the current selection criteria for future use.

6. Run the report using one of the following options.

To do the following...

Follow these instructions...

Run the report immediately as you wait.

a. Click Run Report. A progress bar appears. When the report has finished running, it appears on a report page.

b. See View Reports for information about the report page.

Note: The Run Report option is not available for Data Export or Scoring Service Print Style reports. These report types must be submitted to run in the background.

Submit the report to run in the background.

a. Click Run in Background. A Specify a Report Name dialog box opens. The report name defaults to the Report Type.

b. (Optional) Change or add to the Report Name.

Note: Do not use the following characters in the Report Name: semicolon (;), colon (:), asterisk (*), question mark (?), slash (/), backslash (\), pipe (|), angle brackets (< >), or quotation marks (“).

c. Click OK. A confirmation box informs you that the job has been submitted successfully.

d. Click OK. The report is submitted. When it is finished running, you can open it in the Report Center .

e. See Using the Report Center for information about retrieving reports.

Note: Completed jobs are available in Report Center for five days after they have finished running.