The following table provides a
grade-level listing of the resources recommended for the OLSAT test preparation,
or for building the reasoning skills related to this test. Find
general information about the OLSAT at the bottom of this page.
These
resources are both affordable and easy for parents to use with their
children at home or through a tutor. Questions?
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Figural classification,
Figural Analogies, Figural Series ** This is top recommendation
for preschool-aged children. Note the need for physical
manipulatives.
A complete language course with - following directions,
antonyms, synonyms, categorizing, classification, sequencing, ordering,
deductive reasoning, facts & inferences, prediction
Teaches students how to
analyze and classify analogies by relationship, category, and structure.
About the OLSAT test:
"To learn new things,
students must be able to perceive accurately, to recognize and recall
what has been perceived, to think logically, to perceive relationships,
to abstract from a set of particulars, and to apply a generalization to
new and different contexts. By evaluating a student’s performance on a
variety of tasks, OLSAT 8 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 8 since they have been shown
to be valid measures of an individual’s ability to reason logically."
Harcourt Assessment
Subsections: The OLSAT (Otis Lennon School Abilities Test) is
composed of four components
(matrix by grade level) — verbal
comprehension; verbal reasoning; figural
reasoning, which measures nonverbal skills
using pictograms; and quantitative
reasoning.
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