Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (second edition)—NNAT‑2 uses progressive matrices to allow for a culturally neutral evaluation of students’ nonverbal reasoning and general problem-solving ability, regardless of the individual student’s primary language, education, culture or socioeconomic background.

Based on seven levels, Kindergarten through 12, the NNAT‑2 fosters a normative understanding of general ability without reliance on shared concepts, language, culture, and institutionalised curriculum. Redesigned to engage and better assess the general student population.

Taking only thirty minutes to administer, NNAT‑2 is specifically developed for use by a variety of education professionals, including but not limited to bilingual educators, testing coordinators, gifted and talented teachers, special education teachers, counsellors and educational psychologists.

Use NNAT-2 to evaluate:

• General ability in the entire student population

• Students of limited English skills from diverse cultural backgrounds

• Gifted and talented students

• Non or intermediate English speakers, and students learning the English language for the first time

• Students with limited motor skills, hearing impairment, and minimal colour-vision impairment

• Students whose economic or social circumstances have limited their acquisition of knowledge and verbal skills

   

NNAT‑2 Items:

• Utilise culturally neutral shapes and designs

• Isolate and evaluate fundamental reasoning, mathematics and problem-solving ability

• Unbiased for a culturally diverse student population

• Unbiased for hearing-impaired students

• Unbiased for students with minimal colour-vision impairment

• Designed to require minimal motor skills

• Designed to require no receptive and/or expressive language

• A graduating range of difficulty for identifying and recognising gifted and talented and advanced students