What is the OLSAT? Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT) is a reasoning test for K-12 school children that independent school districts conduct to assess the eligibility for the gifted and talented programs in schools. This test is similar to the CogAT ®, which again is a reasoning test that schools conduct for entry into the […]
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According to a study published by Common Sense Media, approximately 53% of children use a smartphone by age 11. The study also found that children between the ages of 8 to 12 years old spend around five hours per day in front of a screen. Today, children are spending more and more time unsupervised in
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What is the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10)? Stanford Early School Achievement Test, also called Stanford-10 or SAT-10, is a set of standardized achievement tests used by independent school districts in the United States to measure the progress of children from kindergarten to high school. This test was first developed in 1922 by Lewis M. Terman,
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Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a reasoning and logic test for kids. Essentially, the test covers logical, reasoning and verbal ability across numericals, problem-solving, patterns, pictures, puzzles, sentence completion, verbal analogies and word classification. The actual structure of the exam is as follows. We will see below some sample questions in each of the batteries
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Published by Riverside Insights, the CogAT was originally developed in the 1950s and has since gone through many updates. The most recent versions of the test are Form 7 and Form 8. The CogAT is typically administered in a group setting in schools or by a testing partner. The test date and time are determined in
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In this post, we will understand in detail how we use waves for our daily communications. If you’re serious about science, this is a really fundamental topic to get a grip on. We humans use waves everyday to communicate via our speech. But, how do we really make a wave, and what is a wave
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We all know the classic Tic-Tac-Toe game we play by drawing on paper or as a board game. In this post, we will see how we can write a program to print a Tic-Tac-Toe game on screen and for two players to play this game alternatively. Each player has to choose X or O in
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AI can be broken into two broad categories – narrow AI and general AI. Narrow AI is more like solving a fixed problem (in multiple possible ways, of course) using a set of programs pre-written and supervised-training. You can still argue on Narrow AI that how is it intelligence when you’re still programming and training
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Educators don’t often talk about compassion and love for children. This is because essentially we live in a world that mostly prizes only quantifiable consumerism and materialistic individual achievements. The education industry too reflects the same with its focus on accountability and measurement. Love and compassion enables teachers to see teaching as an art where
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Rock, paper scissors is played between two people, both of them choosing one out of the three options. Then, according to certain rules, one of the two is declared the winner. We will discuss these rules further and moreover, we will implement Rock, Paper, and Scissors in the python programming language. The randint() function –
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