________ are any information gathered and collected through your research in the assessment process.
Data
A child's actual age is referred to as the:
Chronological age
When doing an assessment, why calculate age as opposed to just asking children their age?
a. Many children do not know when they were born.
b. Children think they know their date of birth but are incorrect.
c. Ages (when doing psychoeducational assessment
D
A student is ten years, four months and twenty days old. How would her age be expressed numerically?
10-0
A student is tested on April 16, 2011. His date of birth is February 12, 2001. His age at the time of testing is:
10-2-4
A student is tested on July 10, 2010. His date of birth is April 20, 1998. His age at the time of testing is:
12-2-20
A student is tested on August 25, 2010. His date of birth is October 20, 2003. His age at the time of testing is:
6-10-5
A student is tested on September 13, 2007. His date of birth is October 15, 1996. His age at the time of testing is:
10-10-28
The _______ indicates the number of items correctly answered on a given test. In almost all cases, it is the first score a teacher obtains when interpreting data.
Raw score
A student gets 22 correct and 8 wrong on a test. His raw score is
22
On a 20 word spelling test, a student got 6 wrong. His raw score is:
14
A percentile rank of 95 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students in the class.
95
A percentile rank of 40 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students in the class.
40
The _______ percentile normally signifies the average ranking or average performance.
50th
Quartiles divide scores into ______ units:
4
Deciles divide scores into ______ equal units.
10
The fifth decile is the point at which _______ of the scores fall below
50%
The eighth decile is the point at which _______ of the scores fall below
80%
Normally, standard scores have a mean of ____ and a standard deviation of ____.
100/15
A student with a standard score of 90 on a test with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 5 would be __________ the mean.
2 standard deviations below
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of 85 would be in the classification:
Low Average
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of 95 would be a in the classification:
Average
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of 115 would be a in the classification:
High Average
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of 125 would be a in the classification:
Superior
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales)which of the following scores would be in the Low Average range
85
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales)which of the following scores would be in the High Average range
115
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) which of the following scores would be in the Superior range
125
_______ is a type of standard scores that is often seen when doing psychoeducational assessments:
a. z scores
b. T scores
c. Stanines
d. All of the above are types of standard scores
D
A _______ indicates how many standard deviations a score is above or below the mean.
z score
A ________ is a standard score distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.
T score
If a student has a z score of +1.5 this means that he scored
1.5 standard deviations above the mean on the test
If a student has a z score of -1.7, this means that he scored:
1.7 standard deviations below the mean on the test
______ = Test Score - Mean Score/Standard Deviation
z scores
Suppose a student had an IQ of 115 on an IQ test with a mean of 100 a standard deviation of 15. His z score is:
+1.0
_________ have a mean of 50 with a standard deviation of 10.
T scores
A T score of 30 on a test puts a student:
2 standard deviations below the mean on the test
A T score of 60 on a test puts a student:
1 standard deviation above the mean on the test
A _______ is a type of standard score that has a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.
Stanine
Stanine scores can range from _________
1 to 9
A student who gets an age equivalent score of 10-5 is performing as well as the average
10 year-5 month old student
A child who gets a grade equivalent score of 10.5 is performing as well as:
10th grade-5th month old student