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International Exam
External Exams for the UAE National Agenda
Dear Parent/Guardian,
We would like to inform you that during the current academic year 2024-2025 and as part of the UAE National Agenda Parameters set by our Education Authorities, students in all schools are required to participate in international and external benchmarking. strongly supports this initiative, which is in our students' best interest.
The following assessments are scheduled to take place during the academic year 2024- 2025 :
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Mubakkir Arabic Test |
TALA Arabic Test / IBT ( B) |
NWEA MAP ( Englis - Math-Science ) adaptive assessment tests |
CAT4 ( Englis - Math-Science ) Cognitive Abilities Test |
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1- NWEA MAP
What are the MAP Growth Tests?
The Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) are computer-adaptive assessment tests produced by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). The tests are designed for kindergarten through 12th grade students, and assess reading, language usage, math, and, for some grades, general sciences. The test is untimed, but usually takes about an hour to complete.
The MAP Growth provides each child with a unique testing experience that is suitable for his or her academic level, independent of grade. This makes the MAP different from other standardized tests that you or your child may have seen in the past and makes it even more important to be familiar with the test’s format and changing difficulty level before test day.
Why Does My Child Need to Take the NWEA MAP Growth Test?
The NWEA MAP test is a useful tool for both teachers and students. It measures student progress so that teachers can pinpoint weaker areas to work on and stronger areas where students need to be challenged. It can be used to compare a group of students in the same classroom or to predict individual achievements. MAP tests are also used to place students in special programs based on their progress. The test was designed to be used by students of all ages, underlining the importance of tracking progress to improve education in general.
12 Common Questions Parents Ask About the MAP Growth Assessment
10 Ways for Teachers and Parents to Communicate Better about Assessments
Students login in MAP Skills ( Grade 3:9 )
https://sso.mapnwea.org/auth/studentLogin
MAP Reading Fluency Login
https://www.gl-education.com/products/cognitive-abilities-test-cat4/
Cognitive Abilities Test – CAT4 – Example Questions
What is CAT4?
The Cognitive Abilities Test: Fourth Edition (CAT4) is a suite of diagnostic assessments of developed ability and likely academic potential. By measuring a student’s ability to reason with different types of material, CAT4 allows you to assess the way a student thinks and how they will learn best, and in turn, enables you to adapt teaching accordingly.
The test is not based on any curriculum or dependent on prior learning, offering a fair assessment of ability regardless of a student’s prior schooling. Because three of the four batteries are not reliant on knowledge of the English language, the test is ideal for assessing EAL students.
CAT4 provides a unique profile of students’ strengths and weaknesses across four batteries: Verbal, Non-Verbal, Quantitative and Spatial Reasoning. The data can be used to identify specific groups of students including special educational needs and gifted and talented. Students with a high spatial score are likely to be strong in STEM subjects.
What is CAT4?
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) is a diagnostic assessment that is designed to help students and their teachers understand how they learn and what their academic potential might be. It assesses how students think in areas that are known to make a difference to learning.
While many tests focus on a child’s attainment in core subjects, CAT4 is designed to give schools a much broader, more rounded view of each child, their potential and how they learn. Results help teachers decide about the pace of learning that is right for a student and whether additional support or challenge is needed.
Tasks involve thinking about shapes and patterns (Non-Verbal Reasoning), words (Verbal Reasoning), numbers (Quantitative Reasoning) and some questions are answered by mentally generating and transforming visual images (Spatial Ability).
CAT4 is based on years of research and development. The current edition took five years to develop and the involvement of 25,000 students across the UK. It is a well-known assessment in schools; teachers value its ability to provide an understanding of what a child is capable of rather than defining them by their understanding of a body of knowledge in particular subjects.
CAT4 questions answered
What does CAT4 do?
Provides a rounded profile of pupil ability so you can target support, provide the right level of challenge and make informed decisions about pupils’ progress. It provides a unique profile of strengths and weaknesses across four batteries:
Verbal Reasoning – the ability to express ideas and reason through words is essential to subjects with a high language content, and the most obvious skill picked up by traditional assessment.
Non-verbal Reasoning – problem-solving using pictures and diagrams; skills which are important in a wide range of school subjects, including maths and science-based subjects.
Spatial Reasoning – the capacity to think and draw conclusions in three dimensions, needed for many STEM subjects, but not easily measured by other datasets.
Quantitative Reasoning – the ability to use numerical skills to solve problems, applicable well beyond mathematics.
Why use CAT4?
It’s statistically reliable. CAT4 was standardised on 25,000 pupils and it’s verified every year based on analysis from a quarter of a million pupils.
What does CAT4 tell you?
The true potential of pupils, flagging where hidden factors are affecting performance. A range of easy-to-follow individual and group reports provide a more complete picture than curriculum tests can provide by themselves. They’re benchmarked against national performance and include KS2, GCSE and A-level indicators.
How do I use CAT4?
CAT4 can be taken online or on paper at any point in the academic year. And because the data is robust it supports feedback and planning discussions with senior leaders, pupils and parents.
CAT4 Young Learners (a shorter, paper-based version of CAT4 adapted for young children) is available for children aged 6 - 8 years.
CAT4 is available for children aged 7:06 – 17+ years and comes in seven different levels of difficulty. Each comprises three tests of 45 minutes each; 2 hours 15 minutes in total.
Who uses CAT4?
Over three quarters of a million pupils take CAT4 each year.
Information for parents