K-12 Ability & Achievement Webinar Recordings & Other Resources

Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®)

• Getting to Know CogAT
• CogAT and Equity
• Getting to Know CogAT for Differentiation
• Getting to Know CogAT Profiles
• Getting to Know CogAT for Parents
• Take your CogAT Scores out of the Drawer - CogAT Dashboard
• 3 Things You Can Do Right Now with CogAT Data
  
  
• CogAT and Culturally Responsive Identification Practices
  • 1. The Myth of Culture-Fair Tests
  • 2. Evidence‐Based Suggestions of How to Set Up a Universal Screening Process
  • 3. Options for Language‐Reduced and Nonverbal Administration with CogAT Form 7 and 8
  • 4. Identifying English Learner Students for Gifted and Talented Programming
    
    
• Ability and Educational Equity
  • Using Ability Insights to Guide More Equitable Program Decisions (Part 1 / 3)
  • Dispelling the Myths: Why You Need Verbal, Non-Verbal, and Quantitative Data to Provide Equal Opportunities (Part 2 / 3)
  • Considerations for Remote Administration and Data Analysis this Fall (Part 3 / 3)
  • Practical Tips to Expand Gifted Opportunities as a Pathway to True Educational Equity - Colin Seale and Dr. Joni Lakin
  • Tangible Equity: A Framework for Identity, Excellence, and Leadership In and Beyond the Classroom - Colin Seale and Dr. Joni Lakin

• Hear From Your Peers Webinar Series
  • Mankato, MN - Best Practices for Promoting Diversity in Identification for G&T Programs
  • Richardson ISD - Part 1: Equitable Placement of Students in Diverse Environments
  • Richardson ISD - Part 2: Differentiated Services for Students from Diverse Environments
  • Jeffco, CO - Part 1: Using Ability Data as a Bridge to Equity: Building Structures that Engage Stakeholders with Cognitive Data
  • Jeffco, CO - Part 2: Using Ability Data as a Bridge to Equity - Building Capacity for Educators to Leverage Cognitive Data in the Classroom
  • Douglas County, CO - Navigating Change for Greater Equity
  • Newton County, GA - Amplifying Student Strengths to Maximize Growth
  • Anchorage, AK - Introducing Multiple Pathways to Enable Talented Students
    
    
• Hear from the Experts Webinar Series
  • Universal Screening - More Important Now than Ever Before​
  • Measuring Cognitive Reasoning with Validity and Equity​
  • Best Practices in Using Local Norms​
  • Ability Profile™ Scores and Differentiating Instruction
  • Hear from the Experts: Interpreting CogAT Scores in the Time of COVID

IowaFlex™

• Introducing IowaFlex
• Interactive IowaFlex Demo Site

Social Emotional Learning

• Promoting Educational Equity Through SEL Assessment - Aperture Education + Riverside Insights
• Hear from Your Peers: A School’s Journey to Proactively Improve Student Well-Being - LEAD Public Schools, TN

Response to Intervention (RTI)

• Easy Tools for RTI in Action - Live Session 1 + Q/A
• Easy Tools for RTI in Action - Live Session 2 + Q/A
• Easy Tools for RTI in Action - Session Recording Only
• CBM Skills and easyCBM: The Benefits of Diagnostic Math Practice
• Write Right Now and easyCBM: Offering Writing Assessment and Intervention Across Content Areas
• Pandemic Learning Loss- Using easyCBM to Guide Recovery
• Skip, Repeat, or Intervene - Perspective for the GenEd Classroom: Why Intervention is our Best Option
• Hear From Your Peers: Rutherford County, TN – Best Practices for Scaling Intervention Systems

For Schools Affected by COVID-19 Closures

• Changing a DataManager Test Event When a School Closes Unexpectedly
• The DataManager Remote Proctoring Portal

COVID Slide

• Prepare for the Learning Gap - Anticipating the Needs for an Unpredictable Back-to-School - Dr. David Franklin (Part 1 of 3)
• Measure the COVID Slide: Inform Programs, PD, and Instruction - Dr. David Franklin (Part 2 of 3)
• Leverage Personalized Insights - Find the Potential in Each Student - Dr. David Franklin (Part 3 of 3)
• Using Iowa Assessments™ for Measuring Growth When Learning was Placed on Hold - Authors of Iowa Assessments™ 
• COVID-Slide Report: Measuring Estimated Growth with the Iowa Assessments™ 

K-12 Ability and Achievement Assessments Insights Sessions

Assessment Insights are brief, timely webinars produced by Riverside Insights that allow us to connect with customers to ensure successful assessment implementations.

For a complete list of previous K-12 Ability and Achievement Assessments Insights Sessions, click here. 

Additional Resources from Riverside Insights

In addition to our webinars, Riverside Insights offers a robust library of resources for our K-12 Ability and Achievement assessments. Links to resource libraries for specific products are available below: 

• CogAT Resources
• DataManager Tools for Online Testing
• Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests® (GMRT®), Fourth Edition Sample Items
• The Iowa Assessments™ Forms E, F, and G Resources
• IowaFlex Resources
• Logramos® TERCERA EDICIÓN Resources
  

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