Score Reporting and Interpretation Flashcards
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A stanine score of 5 indicates that a test-taker performed:
Answer: In the average range relative to the norm group
Stanines range from 1 to 9, with stanine 5 representing the average band (spanning the 40th to 60th percentile of the norm group).
What distinguishes norm-referenced interpretation from criterion-referenced interpretation?
Answer: Norm-referenced interpretation compares a score to a peer group; criterion-referenced compares to a defined performance standard
Norm-referenced interpretation locates an individual relative to others in a reference group, while criterion-referenced interpretation evaluates performance against a defined mastery standard.
A licensing board sets a cut score of 70 on a 100-item exam. What is the primary psychometric consideration when establishing this cut score?
Answer: Balancing false positive and false negative classification errors
Cut score setting requires careful balancing of false positives (unqualified candidates passing) and false negatives (qualified candidates failing) based on the consequences of each error type.
What does a T-score of 70 indicate in a standardized psychological assessment?
Answer: The examinee's score is two standard deviations above the mean
T-scores have a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10, so a T-score of 70 is exactly two standard deviations above the mean.
A grade equivalent score of 6.4 on a reading test for a 4th grader most accurately means:
Answer: The student's raw score equals the average raw score of 6th graders in the 4th month
A grade equivalent score indicates that a student's raw score equals the median raw score obtained by students in a norm group at that grade and month level, not that the student is functioning at that grade level.
Which of the following best describes a scaled score in large-scale assessments?
Answer: A transformed score that allows comparison across different test forms of equal difficulty
Scaled scores are placed on a common scale through equating procedures, enabling valid score comparisons across different test administrations or forms.
When interpreting scores from a test with low reliability, a practitioner should:
Answer: Widen the confidence interval to account for greater measurement error
Lower reliability means greater measurement error (larger SEM), which requires wider confidence intervals to accurately reflect the imprecision of the observed score.