Which of the following is a property of percentile ranks?
a. They can be used to determine what content or skills a student is deficient in.
b. They describe the level of learning a student has achieved.
c. They allow comparison of students' performance.
Ques. 2What does a percentile rank of 75 mean?
a. 75 of the items were answered correctly by the student.
b. 75 of the group tested had the same score as the student.
c. 75 of the group tested did better than the student.
d. 75 of the group tested did poorer than the student.
Ques. 3Failure to ensure recency of norms usually results in lower student scores in relation to the norms.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 4Which of the following information can NOT be obtained from a test publisher's catalogue?
a. Technical data about the test
b. The cost of score reports
c. Examples of test items
d. Description of the content and score of a test
Ques. 5A standardized test was standardized between March 10th and March 24th. Assume that your school cannot test in March. On which of the following dates would it be best to schedule your school's testing in order to provide the most accurate estimate of a student's standing in the norm group?
a. Third week in January
b. Third week in February
c. Fourth week in April
d. First week in May
Ques. 6Suppose the principal had looked up the averages properly in the school averages norm table. What would the results show?
a. Her school averages would rank lower than the 75th percentile.
b. Her school averages would rank the same.
c. Her school averages would rank higher than the 75th percentile.
b. We cannot determine how the results will compare to the 75th percentile because we do not have the school averages norms tables.
Ques. 7A teacher wants to use a norm-referencing framework to interpret Ashley's standardized test score. Ashley is a sixth-grade student in a high socioeconomic status community in the Northeast. Which of the following norm groups should the teacher give the first priority for interpreting Ashley's score?
a. National norms representing sixth grade students in schools of all sizes and from all geographic locations.
b. Regional norms representing sixth grade students in large urban schools in the Northeast.
c. Regional norms representing sixth grade students in private and higher socioeconomic schools in the Northeast.
d. Local norms representing only sixth grade students in Ashley's community.
Ques. 8Why should local norms always be used in addition to national norms when making norm-referenced interpretations of standardized test scores?
a. Local norms provide a clear educational standard.
b. Local norms measure educational growth more accurately.
c. Local norms contain students with the same educational background and community experience.
d. All of the above.
Ques. 9It is acceptable to use two different publishers' national norms interchangeably because their large norm-samples overlap quite a bit.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 10Standardized tests' norms are quality standards against which a school can judge how well its students are learning.
a. True
b. False
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