Cognitive Abilities Test - Forms 7/8 - 20 17 Norms and Score Conversions Guide

Oct 3, 2026

Guide for converting Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT) raw scores from Forms 7/8 into universal scale scores and then into age-normed, grade, and percentile interpretation-ready scores. Describes a five-step score conversion workflow, criteria for determining meaningful raw scores, and how to handle too few attempted items and alternative verbal battery scores (levels 5/6, 7, 8). Includes instructions for preparing target scores, ability profiles, and extensive norms tables for verbal and quantitative batteries using 2017 norms.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages134

Reading Time5 h 38 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Part 1 Introduction

About This Guide

Purpose

Getting More Help

Part 2 Before You Begin

In Brief

Overview of the Score Conversion Process

Step 1: Complete Hand Scoring

Step 2: Determine Whether Raw Scores Are Meaningful

Step 3: Convert Raw Scores into Universal Scale Scores

Step 4: Convert Universal Scale Scores to Normative Scores

Step 5: Prepare Normative Scores for Interpretation

About the Alternative Verbal Battery Score—Levels 5/6, 7, & 8

Part 3 Convert Scores

In Brief

Part 4 Prepare for Interpretation

In Brief

Part 5 Norms Tables

Cognitive Abilities Test ™ FORMS 7/8 20 17 Norms and Score Convers ions Guide FORMS 7/8 2017 Norms and Score Conversions Guide Cognitive Abilities Test ™ David F. Lohman • Joni M. Lakin Copyright © 2019 by Riverside Assessments, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Riverside Assessments, LLC unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Riverside Insights, Attention: Permissions, One Pierce Place, Suite 900W, Itasca, Illinois 60143. Contents Part 1 Introduction ........................................................................ 1 About This Guide .................................................................................................. 1 Purpose .................................................................................................................................1 Getting More Help ................................................................................................ 1 Part 2 Before You Begin .................................................................3 In Brief .................................................................................................................. 3 Overview of the Score Conversion Process ............................................................ 3 Step 1: Complete Hand Scoring ...........................................................................................3 Step 2: Determine Whether Raw Scores Are Meaningful..................................................3 Step 3: Convert Raw Scores into Universal Scale Scores.....................................................3 Step 4: Convert Universal Scale Scores to Normative Scores .............................................3 Step 5: Prepare Normative Scores for Interpretation.........................................................4 About the Alternative Verbal Battery Score—Levels 5/6, 7, & 8 ............................ 4 Identifying Too Few Items Attempted................................................................... 4 Part 3 Convert Scores .....................................................................7 In Brief .................................................................................................................. 7 Converting Raw Scores to Universal Scale Scores .................................................. 7 Obtaining Age-Normed Scores .............................................................................. 8 Obtaining Grade Scores ...................................................................................... 10 Calculating Partial Composites (Optional) .......................................................... 11 Part 4 Prepare for Interpretation ................................................. 13 In Brief ................................................................................................................ 13 Identifying Targeted Scores ............................................................................... 13 Identifying Many Omitted Items ......................................................................... 14 Determining Ability Profiles ............................................................................... 15 Part 5 Norms Tables...................................................................... 18 Verbal Battery.....................................................................................................................20 Table 1: Raw Score to Universal Scale Score, Complete Battery—Verbal—Form 7 ..............................................................................................................20 Tab

FAQs

What is the overall purpose of the Forms 7/8 norms and score conversions guide?

It provides instructions to convert CogAT™ raw scores for Forms 7/8 into universal scale scores and then into normative scores suitable for interpretation.

What steps are included in the score conversion process?

The guide outlines completing hand scoring, checking whether raw scores are meaningful, converting to universal scale scores, converting to normative scores, and preparing normative scores for interpretation.

How does the guide address the alternative verbal battery score for levels 5/6, 7, and 8?

It includes specific guidance on interpreting the alternative verbal battery score and identifies cases such as too few items attempted.

Oct 3, 2026

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