Is CAT a measure of innate ability? Are CAT results in any way affected by teaching?
There is no such thing as a measure of innate ability. The quality of prior teaching, opportunities to learn, parental support, pupils’ educational experience, and their emotional and physical well-being, including nutrition, will affect pupils’ performance on all educational tests. However tests of the taught curriculum – reading, mathematics, spelling etc. – are likely to be influenced by these factors to a greater degree than reasoning tests. Attainment tests, such as National Curriculum tests or GCSE examinations, are designed to measure outcomes of specific learning and instruction, and the test content is drawn directly from the taught curriculum. In contrast, reasoning tests tap into a general set of prior experience by assessing the perception and manipulation of relationships, content that is not generally part of the taught curriculum. Non-Verbal Reasoning (NVR) tests, with their relatively low language demands, are least likely to be influenced by the nature and quality of t
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