Cognitive Abilities Test, Fourth Edition.
CAT4
- What it measures
- general reasoning ability; verbal reasoning; quantitative reasoning; non-verbal reasoning; spatial reasoning
- Length and format
- Four batteries (Verbal, Quantitative, Non-verbal, Spatial), each with multiple subtests; Levels A-G across school years. group-administered multiple-choice reasoning items; paper or online (digital) (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- UK/international editions; designed to be curriculum-free; used across UK and British-international/boarding schools worldwide; some localized norms
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- GL Assessment. (2012). Cognitive Abilities Test, Fourth Edition (CAT4). London: GL Assessment.
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