Sentences with phrase «normal curve equivalents»

You usually see norm - referenced scores reported as percentiles, normal curve equivalents (NCEs), and stanines.

Norm referencing occurs, for example, when resultant test scores are distributed around a bell curve so that students» test scores might be compared to the greater «normal» population of their peers (e.g., using percentile ranks or normal curve equivalents [NCEs]-RRB-.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

A school's average scores on the TCAP test arranged by grade and year, and expressed as NCE (normal curve equivalent) scores.

Students» gains were calculated on the basis of the change in normal curve equivalent scores from the pre-test to the post-test.

It was also found that teachers who had high rates of technological implementation had average Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE) point gains of 10.9 on the CTBS, while teachers who had low rates of technological implementation had only a 1.1 NCE point gain.

Not exact matches

This conversion uses the effect size — in the case of the D.C. voucher program, -0.12 standard deviations — to find the equivalent percentile drop from the 50th percentile on a normal curve.56