Psychologists distinguish between criterion-referenced and norm-referenced scores.
a. Explain the difference between these two types of scores.
b. Describe a situation in which criterion-referenced scores would clearly be more appropriate, and why.
c. Describe a situation in which norm-referenced scores would clearly be more appropriate, and why.
Question 2
Imagine that, as a teacher, you are administering a high-stakes achievement test to your students. You have three English language learners in your class, none of whom knew English before immigrating to this country: Franois (who immigrated 9 months ago and is now getting individual tutoring in English); Mei-Li (who immigrated 3 years ago and spent the first 2 years in a bilingual education program); and Maria (who immigrated 7 years ago and is now doing well in her English-only classes). Given what you've learned about the amount of time it typically takes for children to master English as a second language, which of these students has/have probably acquired sufficient knowledge of English to earn valid scores on the high-stakes test?
a. None of them
b. Only Maria
c. Both Mei-Li and Maria
d. All three of them
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
Normal Distribution of IQ Scores
Expected Distribution of IQ Scores
. In which distribution is the mean more “typical” of all scores?
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