Jonathan's Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
and Cognitive Abilities Test

Jonathan was given the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in September, 1999. He is in the second grade at Pierce in Hamilton City Schools.

Jonathan's Composite score is the score that best describes his overall achievement on the tests. Jonathan earned a Composite grade equivalent of 3.5 on the level 7 test. This means that his test performance was approximately the same as that made by a typical student in the third grade at the end of the fifth month. Jonathan's Composite national percentile rank of 94 means that he scored higher that 94 percent of second grade students nationally. His overall achievement appears to be well above average for second grade.

This is Jonathan's NPR Chart

 

Iowa Tests of Basic Skills Predicted Scores Obtained Scores
  PSS PNPR GE NCE NPR
Vocabulary 175 81 3.5 74 88
Reading Comprehension 170 76 2.4 55 59
Reading Total 171 76 3 66 77
Listening 169 80 3.8 86 96
Lauguage 147 81 3.4 74 87
Lauguage Total 141 80 3.6 81 93
Math Concepts 165 79 2.8 72 86
Math Problems 173 83 3.7 81 93
Math Totals 168 82 3.3 79 92
Core Totals 171 82 3.3 77 90
Social Studies 171 80 3.1 71 84
Science 171 80 4.8 93 98
Sources of Information 169 81 3.5 82 94
Composite 171 85 3.5 82 94
Word Analysis 170 76 4.1 80 93
Math Computation 158 68 2.1 51 51
PSS = Predicted Standard Score, PNPR = Predicted National Percentile Rank, GE = Grade Equivalent, NCE = Normal Curve Equivalent, NPR = National Percentile Rank

A student's scores can be compared with each other to determine relative strengths and weaknesses. The following areas are relative weaknesses which may need the most work: Reading Comprehension and Math Computation.

Different students bring different patterns and levels of abilities to learning tasks. He was given Cognitive Abilities Test to help find out about his abilities. Jonathan's national percentile rank of 95 on verbal ability means that, compared with other second grade students nationally, Jonathan scored higher that 95 percent. Jonathan appears to be well above average in verbal ability. Jonathan's national percentile rank is 96 in quantitative ability and 80 in nonverbal ability. Jonathan seems to be high in quantitative ability and above average in nonverbal ability. Jonathan's composite national percentile rank of 95 is a general statement of his ability. He seems to be well above average in overall cognitive ability.

Cognitive Abilities Tests
        Age Scores Grade Scores
  Number Items Number Attempted Raw Score SAS NPR
Verbal 48 48 39 120 95
Quantitative 48 48 45 121 96
Nonverbal 48 48 39 108 80
Composite       117 95
SAS = Standard Age Score

How are Jonathan's achievement scores compared to his cognitive abilities scores? Jonathan's actual achievement is higher than expected in three test areas: Listening, Science and Word Analysis.

 

This is Jonathan at the WPAFB Musume

 


Last Updated on 11/23/1999 and 11/27/2002
By Paul and Anne Burns
Email: pburns__@ix.netcom.com