Test Scores and Norms

Question 1

What is the systematic observation of behaviour?

Answer 1

Summarize
Compare
Interpret (i.e. infer meaning)

Question 2

Explain descriptive statistics.

Answer 2

Describing the characteristics of the sample data (e.g., mean, SD, rank order)

Question 3

Explain inferential statistics.

Answer 3

Making estimation of the population through results derived from sample data (e.g., t-test, ANOVA)

Question 4

What is raw score total?

Answer 4

Sum of all scores across all the items within a single test measure

Question 5

What is norm referencing?

Answer 5

Comparing a participant’s score with a general score from the general relevant population

Question 6

What is criterion referencing?

Answer 6

It is a cut-off score

Question 7

What do you need to know for criterion-referencing?

Answer 7

Know all the possible behaviours with regards to your psychological construct

Question 8

What is the purpose of score transformation?

Answer 8

Done to increase comparability and for norm referencing

Question 9

What does Linear transformation entails?

Answer 9

It retains the order of score as well as the distance between scores, so if anything is moved, it moves together

Question 10

List down an example of linear transformation

Answer 10

z-scores

Question 11

What does non-linear transformaton entails?

Answer 11

The order is retained, but the distance is not; get varying distance between each score