Coglink: Linking Cognition to High-Stakes Testing

COG-LINK: Linking Cognition to High-Stakes Testing

July 23rd, 2025

July 23rd, 2025
Chicago

Overview

These days all countries, even those with the most efficient educational systems are concerned with relatively poor results that their students demonstrate in such high-stakes international exams as PISA and TIMMS. The problem is that school curricula are still organized around the disciplinary content knowledge while high-stakes exams require much more flexible problem-solving strategies and the ability to apply them to everyday life situations.

The Feuerstein approach proved to be effective in developing exactly such flexible problem-solving strategies. Now these strategies have been linked directly to a sample of high-stakes assessment tasks.
Seminar participants will learn how to use selected tasks of the Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment program (FIE-1) for developing students’ problem-solving skills which can be linked directly to the solution of the high-stakes exam tasks.


Cost and Registration:

  • Price: $225 USD
  • Cancellation & Refund Policy:
    • The Feuerstein Institute reserves the right to cancel any course with fewer than 10 participants registered by June 20, 2025.
    • Cancellations by participants before the registration deadline will incur a $50 USD processing fee.
    • No refunds will be issued for cancellations after the registration deadline.

Participants will receive 4 CPD credits for active participation in this seminar.


Trainers:

Dr. Meir Ben-Hur

Dr. Meir Ben-Hur is a recognized international authority in the field of cognition and mathematics and the author of a very popular book Concept-rich mathematics instruction: Building a strong foundation for reasoning and problem solving. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, USA. He is one of the senior trainers of the Feuerstein Institute who mentored thousands of teachers in the US and around the world.