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Otis-Lennon School Ability Test

The Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) was developed in 1918 to evaluate students' ability to reason logically through verbal and non-verbal activities. It serves to help educators design educational programs tailored to students' strengths and needs. The OLSAT consists of 21 subtests in five areas - verbal comprehension, verbal reasoning, pictorial reasoning, figural reasoning, and quantitative reasoning. It is intended to assess thinking skills and understanding of strengths and weaknesses in various reasoning tasks over its 45-minute administration. Scores are meant to project a child's learning capabilities, though some critique it for not being accurate enough for gifted children as questions may not challenge their full abilities.

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Otis-Lennon School Ability Test

The Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) was developed in 1918 to evaluate students' ability to reason logically through verbal and non-verbal activities. It serves to help educators design educational programs tailored to students' strengths and needs. The OLSAT consists of 21 subtests in five areas - verbal comprehension, verbal reasoning, pictorial reasoning, figural reasoning, and quantitative reasoning. It is intended to assess thinking skills and understanding of strengths and weaknesses in various reasoning tasks over its 45-minute administration. Scores are meant to project a child's learning capabilities, though some critique it for not being accurate enough for gifted children as questions may not challenge their full abilities.

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Otis-Lennon

School Ability Test


I. Historical Background
Proponents

-The test was originally devised in 1918.


-The name Otis-Lennon reflects co-authors Arthur
Sinton Otis, and Roger Thomas Lennon.
-Otis is best known for the multiple choice intelligence
tests he developed for the U.S. Army. -Army Alpha
-Army Beta
I. Historical Background
Purpose

 The OLSAT serves several purposes:


1. Evaluates the student’s ability to reason logically on various levels of
verbal and non-verbal activities such as differentiation of like and unlike,
following directions, determining sequence, finishing analogies, and
completing math problems.
-This information allows educators to design educational programs
that will enhance students' strengths while supporting their learning
needs.

2. For some school systems, it serves as an economical way to widely assess


gifted and talented candidates in the early years
II. Description of the Test
(areas covered)

The test has 21 subtests, organized into five areas, and an


equal number of verbal and non-verbal items is included in each
area.

The five areas are verbal comprehension, verbal


reasoning, pictorial reasoning, figural reasoning, and
quantitative reasoning.
IV. Test Uses

 -Informations allows educators to design educational programs that will


enhance students 'strengths while supporting their learning needs.

-Its intent is to assess thinking skills and provide an understanding of a


student's relative strengths and weaknesses in performing a variety of reasoning
tasks.  

-By evaluating a student's performance on a variety of tasks, OLSAT assesses


those abilities that are related to success in school. Tasks such as detecting
likenesses and differences, recalling words and numbers, defining words, following
directions, classifying, establishing sequence, solving arithmetic problems, and
completing analogies are included in OLSAT since they have been shown to be
valid measures of an individual's ability to reason logically.
VI. Administration

 -The test consumes 45 minutes.


VII. Interpretation of scores

  -The score projects how well the child is


able to learn (or his/her capability).
VIII. Critique

 -The Otis Lennon test is a group test, which


is not known for being highly accurate with
gifted children
 *the questions on the test didn't get difficult enough to
measure the child's actual abilities.  

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