Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT-2)

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.

Through the NNAT‑2 a normative understanding of a student’s general ability can be assessed without reliance on shared concepts, language, culture, and institutionalized curriculum.

NNAT-2 evaluates:

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

In our district, students in Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd  and 4^th grades are assessed using the NNAT-2.