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maegan_martin · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Imagine that you want to use students' performance on both standardized tests and teacher-developed assessments to predict how much the students are likely to achieve in the future. In such a situation, you would need to keep three of the following points in mind. Which statement is not necessarily accurate?

a. Much valuable information may be lost whenever students' achievement is summarized as a single grade or test score.
b. Students' overall grade point averages are useless in predicting their future achievement.
c. Most classroom assessments don't take into account dispositions and attitudes that may affect students' future achievement.
d. Some standardized achievement tests may have poor content validity for your own school's curriculum.

Question 2

Greg took the district-wide achievement test and got a stanine score of 9 . Which one of the following is closest to Greg's percentile score?

a. 14
b. 16
c. 84
d. 98