Author Question: Miguel's score on a reading comprehension test is in the 80th percentile. This means that Miguel ... (Read 647 times)

yoroshambo · **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.