Is it possible to find clues to determine the relative strength of your child’s cognitive skills without testing? Yes, it’s possible to judge the strength of your child’s cognitive skills by stepping back and observing him in the midst of his daily activities.
Last year, Chinese Christian Schools was privileged to pilot the Gibson Cognitive Skills Test and the BrainSkills cognitive exercises with our students.
Because of either a lack of knowledge about the role cognitive skills play in the learning process or an inability to help increase those skills, the education of too many children has simply been a guessing game.
Researcher Susan Landry reveals that children’s school readiness is optimized “if language, literacy, and other cognitive factors are attended to through quality programming in early childhood settings.”
The tests are intended to start off with easy questions and gradually move to harder questions. In all but one test, the test is terminated early if the student misses three in a row.
Recent criticism of private education has focused on the shrinking gap in student performance between public and private school students.
Doctors, regardless of their field, follow a predictable pattern when working with their patients. A simple overview of their work with patients helps to inform potential new patterns of thinking in our work with our students.
Cognitive skills are the underlying skills that must function for you to successfully read, hear, think, prioritize, plan, understand, remember, and solve problems.