On the NNAT, often students "don't understand what they're supposed to do, " said David Lohman, a professor of educationalpsychology at the University of Iowa and the co-author of a rival test, called the CogAT.
Research in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and educationalpsychology is rapidly bringing new insights into how we learn and retain information and how these differences between individuals can be designed into education, not ignored.