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yoroshambo

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on: Jul 31, 2018
Miguel's score on a reading comprehension test is in the 80th percentile. This means that Miguel
 
  a. scored higher than 20 percent of the students who took the test.
  b. achieved a raw score of 40 on the test.
  c. achieved the cut-off score for competency in the content being assessed.
  d. scored higher than 80 percent of the students who took the test.

Question 2

Percentile scores
 
  a. can be added and averaged.
  b. provide an equal-interval scale of measurement.
  c. are equally spaced across all parts of a distribution.
  d. are commonly used to compare the relative ranking of an individual's test score.


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johnharpe

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Reply #1 on: Jul 31, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

d


yoroshambo

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Reply 2 on: Jul 31, 2018
Excellent

Joy Chen

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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