Sentences with phrase «norm group»

These are falsely, yet oft - termed norm - referenced tests as companies often use a national norm group as part of their development.

By creating norm groups or specific criteria to which students are compared, they say, test makers can measure each student's abilities with precision.

Over the past 2 years our district has administered computer adaptive assessments and do so in an environment that establishes a national norm group composed of hundreds of schools.

The standardized test can be any that is comparable to a national norm group.

Their Organizational Culture Inventory (click here for a 10 - page sample in PDF) is a survey given to the organization's employees to gather data for 12 behavioral norms grouped by three clusters.

Cronbachs alpha's ranged for the above - mentioned scales for the clinical norm group from 0.72 to 0.87.

Here's the challenge: If students in a norm group toward the bottom of achievement — at the 5th percentile, for example — don't grow much on an absolute basis, then two years of growth might not be all that impressive.

Instead, the measure is likely comparing that student to others in his «norm group» — students with like characteristics such as level of achievement, age, and so forth.

The fundamental purpose of all such tests is to compare a student's score with the scores earned by a previous group of test takers (known as the norm group).

The norm group typically answers one half of all questions correctly.

For example, a student scoring at the 51st percentile scored higher than 51 percent of the students in the norming group who also took the test.

A candidate's / participant's results are compared to a norm group rather than directly to another candidate / participant.

Since no German norm group exists as yet, the data from the Dutch norm group were used.

Percentage scores are based on comparisons with a norm group of over 50,000 couples.

The CBCL scores are about one - third of a SD above the T - score mean of 50 established for the norm group; but below the T - score of 60 most often used to identify clinically relevant cases or the more liberal cut off of 55 suggested by Hudziak and colleagues (2004).

Interestingly, adolescents reported their family to be more cohesive than the norm group, while their parents did not.

Adolescents» reported that their family was more cohesive, expressive, organized and social and had fewer conflicts than the norm group (Table 2).

We hypothesized that families confronted with parental cancer would report functioning more positively than a norm group [17].

In comparison with the norm group, parents found their family more expressive, less conflictual, better organized, less controlling and more social than the norm group (Table 2).