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Richard Selfridge

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Standardised Tests 101 – how and why tests are standardised

Standardising a test score is fairly straightforward and I walked readers through the process here. As I said, however, “deciding whether test scores reported in this way are meaningful depends on a number of other variables which come into play –...

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Measuring Progress in Education – The good, the bad and the future

In recent years, ‘progress’ or ‘growth’ has become a much-discussed issue in education. The terminology has often been used to mean a numerical...

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Standardised Scores 101 – Understanding how Standardised Scores are Calculated

By Richard Selfridge If a student scores 65% on a test, what does this tell you? Is this mark good? Bad? Average? If it is deemed to be a...

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