Lucid CoPS (Cognitive Profiling System) for 4 to 7-year-old students
About CoPS
CoPS (Cognitive Profiling System) is a fully digitised psychometric assessment system, designed to identify students’ cognitive strengths and weaknesses, including:
• dyslexia (or specific learning difficulty)
• special educational needs
• developmental difficulties
CoPS should ideally be used for screening all students on school entry, or as soon as possible thereafter. It is standardised for use with students aged 4:0 – 7:11
The subtests in CoPS are delivered in the form of games, which are stimulating, enjoyable and non-threatening for students. They also contribute to greater accuracy and reliability of results. The areas of cognitive ability assessed are:
• visual spatial sequential memory
• visual-verbal sequential memory
• visual-verbal associative memory
• auditory sequential memory
• phonological awareness
• auditory discrimination
• colour discrimination.
• visual associative memory
• visual sequential memory
About the subtests
The nine subtests in the CoPS suite are listed in Table 1. Rabbits, Crayons, Toybox and Letters are predominantly visual in their task requirements. However, students can (and many do) use verbal strategies for some of these visual tests, e.g. saying the names of the colours to themselves in Crayons or Toybox, or inventing names such as bird or table for the symbols in Letters. Letter names involves visual and verbal elements equally, whereas Races, Rhymes and Wock are fundamentally verbal in their task requirements, even though they are presented in a visual manner. Each subtest is preceded by verbal instructions delivered by the computer, followed by a practice phase in which the student is told by the computer how to play the game. Although these procedures are usually sufficient to enable the student to understand the test requirements thoroughly, it is nevertheless worthwhile for the teacher to prepare the student for the task by explaining the scenario of the game, which is described in the following sections. Please see the user manual for further guidance.
Getting started
CoPS runs on the GL Ready platform at www.glready.com.
Step 1: You will be set up with a GL Ready account and a CoPS subscription.
Step 2: You will receive an email from glready@gl-assessment.co.uk with information on how to access the platform.
Step 3: Before logging in, set your new password via the Set or reset your password link – www.glready.com/password/reset.
You will then receive a second email password reset email. Follow the instructions in the email to create a secure login for GL Ready.
Step 4: Log in to your GL Ready account and start setting up your students and assigning CoPS (click the Support button for details).
Step 5: Check the status of your CoPS subscription in the Manage school tab at the top of your GL Ready page.
To ensure the security of your students’ personal data, please follow current best practice for password security.