rs2@houxu.UUCP (R.SWITZER) (07/05/85)
<> Greetings, I have a daughter who just finished kindergarten and near the end of the year took the CAT's. Now these tests are administered over a 1 week period of time and are supposedly used by the staff to determine the "intelligence" of the child for proper placement in later years. What was sent home on the last day was a small sheet of results containing all sorts of numbers and leaving my wife and I quite confused as to how to interpret the information. Does anyone have any information or pointers to information about these tests? As a digression I have noticed that all of the surounding school systems use different tests. I am wondering if this isn't intentional so as to prevent the casual parent from comparing different school systems. Ah, well, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bob Switzer houxu!rs2
see1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Wizzerd) (07/06/85)
The numbers for the California Achievement Test are percentiles; there
should be one for each large portion of the test (say, English), and then
one each for the subsections thereof (reading comprehension, vocabulary,
whatever -- I don't know which subjects the kindergarten version covers).
Basically, each score is telling you how many percent of the children
nationwide did worse than your child in each tested area.
Hope this helps...
Ellen Seebacher (CAT veteran)
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