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Testing & Scoring
Praxis Testing & Scoring Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| validity | the degree to which the tool measures what it claims to measure |
| reliability | the overall consistency of a measure |
| raw score | the original result obtained by a student on a test |
| scaled score | the results of some transformation applied to the raw score |
| percentile | the percent of the population whose scores fall at or below the score |
| standard deviation | a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation |
| mean | the average of a set of numbers |
| median | the "middle" value in the list of numbers |
| mode | the value that occurs most often |
| grade-equivalent score | score based on the performance of students in the test's norming group |
| age-equivalent score | a comparison of a child's performance compared to age groups whose average scores are in the same range |