They also appear to be outliers in terms of having very
low average scale scores.
As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report
lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
Not exact matches
In fact, Question No. 12
scored very
low on the bureau's
scale of the «burden» it imposes on the public: It takes the
average respondent 9 seconds to answer, officials estimate.
The rodents showed significantly fewer signs of pain (an
average of a 36 %
lower score on the grimace
scale) when a male researcher was in the room than when a female researcher — or no researcher at all — was there.
Average scale scores are important, no doubt, but we also need to pay attention to high and
low achievers and how they are faring over time.
If the
lowest performers at the school improve by a few points, that will raise the
average scale score.
al., Providence College and Brown University School of Medicine, showed that LD kids tended to
score an
average of 7.5 points
lower on the OLSAT than their WISC - III full
scale IQ
scores.
Their working memory (
average 112.5) and processing speed (
average 110.6)
scores lowered their full
scale scores.
On
average, U.S. students
scored lower than OECD
average on the combined science and literacy
scale (489 vs. 500) and mathematics
scale (474 vs. 498)(U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, n.d.).
Most standard tests are designed to provide accurate
scores for students near proficiency; because there are not enough items measuring performance at the
lower end of the
scale, the tests may provide very limited information about students who
score substantially below
average.
Grade 4 test data, absentee students
scored an
average 12 points
lower on the reading assessment than those with no absences — more than a full grade level on the NAEP achievement
scale.
With respect to personality dimensions, on
average, children produced higher
scores on Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Openness / Intellect
scales (reflecting a tendency to avoid endorsement of the «Not True» response), and
lower scores on Neuroticism, relative to the
scale range of each construct.
As expected, the
average score for conflict was in the
lower range of the
scale, and most families (n = 36, 52.9 %) obtained the
lowest score on the conflict
scale, whereas only three families (4.4 %) showed the highest level of coparenting conflict during the triadic play.