CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF COGNITIVE ABILITIES TEST FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

The present task was undertaken to construct and standardize test for measuring cognitive abilities of elementary school students. For this, data were collected from elementary school students by adopting multistage sampling along with incidental sampling technique. An item pool was created initially by consulting various sources and theoretical and empirical literature availablein concerned area. This item pool was put to evaluation and criticism by technical as well as language experts. The preliminary draft of cognitive abilities test was further subjected to item analysis to select only those items which were having average difficulty and possessed adequate validity. The reliability of test was established with the help of test-retest and split-half methods which were found to be appreciably high. The validity of cognitive abilities test was ascertained and norms were established for interpretation of obtained scores on the test. In the last, conclusions have been presented and applicability of cognitive abilities test have been discussed.