Chapter 4

Question 1

Chronological age

Answer 1

Child’s age

Question 2

Data

Answer 2

Represent information gathered during the assessment process.

Question 3

Raw score

Answer 3

Number of items answered correctly on a test.

Question 4

Deciles

Answer 4

Decide scores into 10ths or 10 equal units.

Question 5

Percentile rank

Answer 5

A score indicating the percentage of people or scores that occur at or below a given score.

Question 6

Quartiles

Answer 6

Divide scores into four units: 1-25, 26-50, 51-75, 76-99.

Question 7

Protocol

Answer 7

Booklet where you record child’s responses

Question 8

Standard score

Answer 8

Score that has been transformed to fit a normal curve. A mean and standard deviation that remain the same across ages.

Question 9

Scaled score

Answer 9

A conversion of a students raw score to a common scale that allows for numerical comparison between students.

Question 10

Z score

Answer 10

Indicates how many standard deviations a score is above or below the mean.

Question 11

T score

Answer 11

Mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10.

Question 12

Stanine

Answer 12

Abbreviation for standard nine which is a type of standard score that has a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.