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Salvia ch 4, What Test Scores Mean?
Salvia ch 4, What Test Scores Mean?
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If the median for a set of scores equals 136, what percentage of the scores is below 136?
Some other percentage
25%
75%
33%
2
Subjective scoring relies on personal impressions and varies from tester to tester
False
True
3
*The presence of a correlation proves causality*
True
False
4
The SAT and ACT are this kind of test.
norm-referenced
standard-referenced
subjective-referenced
criterion-referenced
5
What is an example of a specialized norming sample?
gender norms
local norms
international norms
national norms
6
It is recommended to use age or grade equivalent scores.
False
True
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This score indicates the percentage of people whose scores are at or below a given raw score.
Standard score
Median
z-score
Percentile Rank
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Score most frequently obtained is the...
Median
Mode
z-score
Mean
9
Characteristics important to consider when looking at a normative sample include...
acculturation of parents
age
gender
all of the above
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Advantages to using standard scores include...
Not readily interpreted
Not able to add, subtract, mutiply, divide, or average
Can be easily transformed into other scores
Test authors don't like to use them
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In a normal distribution, what percentage lies one standard deviation above AND below the mean?
96%
34%
50%
68%
12
Student performance can be
summarized
in all the following way EXCEPT...
percent correct
fluency
raw score
percent accuracy
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A normal curve is also called a...
Percentile ranking
A bell curve
A scattergram
Funny picture
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The square root of the average squared deviation around the mean is the...
Standard Deviation
Range
Stanine
Variance
15
All the following are commonly used standard scores EXCEPT
raw scores
z-score
T-scores
Stanine
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*Letter grades are an example of what type of scale?*
ordinal
ratio
equal-interval
nominal
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Smarter Balance state testing is an example of what kind of test.
subjective based
criterion-referenced
standards-referenced
norm-referenced
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The average distance between each score and every other score in the distribution is the definition of...
median
variance
range
standard deviation
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If the Mode and Median are lower scores than the Mean, the distribution would be skewed...
positively
Leptokurtic
negatively
symmetrical
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A standardized intelligence test is an example of what type of test?
None of the above
Criterion-referenced
Standards-referenced
Norm-referenced
