The CAT on Top of the CAT
Picture a cat sitting on top of another cat. Sounds silly doesn't it? Well that's the whole idea at VQ. Here's how it works.
First, what a CAT is
A CAT is a Computer Adaptive Test. It's a quiz that watches how you answer and picks your next question from it. Get one right and the next one gets a little harder. Get one wrong and it backs off to find where you're comfortable. It learns you while you take it.
Now, eight of them
The Vitruvian Quotient measures eight kinds of smart. What you know, how you reason, your emotions, your language, your creativity, your social skill, your movement, and your body. Each one gets its own CAT. Eight cats, each built to measure its own thing and nothing else.
Here's the cat on top
There's a ninth CAT. It sits on top of all eight and watches them at the same time. Its only job is to decide what comes next.
Say reading is easy for you but the math questions keep stumping you. The cat on top sees it. It might switch you to a spoken science task to rest your brain, then come back to math one rung lower. Harder, easier, a new subject, a new way to answer, a higher grade. The cat on top makes the call. A test that runs the other tests.
Why this one's new
Every smart test before this one adapted a single thing. How hard the next question is. This one adapts four at once. What kind of question, what format, which of the eight smarts, and what grade you're working at.
Nobody had ever stacked a CAT on top of a row of CATs like this. I built it. It works. And I'm handing it to the researchers to test and pull apart. Take it. That's the gift.
You can hold the baton
The cat on top is a conductor, and it doesn't only work in a classroom. It keeps your eight scores balanced, nudges you toward the subject you've been dodging, and lets you steer. You don't have to wait for someone to tell you what's next. You can run your own learning.
The short version
One cat measures. Eight cats measure eight ways. The cat on top decides what's next. That last cat is the one nobody had built. Now it's built, and it's yours.
It's part of The Vitruvian Quotient. It's in playtesting right now, and it's free.