COUN 6360 Week 7 Competency Quiz; Norm Groups and Standard Scores

1. Question: Which scale of measurement is being used if assigning numbers based on different professional affiliation (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists)? 2. Question: Match the standard score with its mean and standard deviation. 3. Question: NCEs range from 1 to 99 along the bell-shaped curve, but as opposed to percentiles, they are in equal units along curve. 4. Question: If a child is in grade 4.3 and receives a grade equivalent of 7.2 on an achievement test, he or she is achieving at the 7.2 grade level. 5. Question: On a normally distributed curve, raw scores may become meaningful if you know the standard deviation and mean of the group. 6. Question: The area between +1 and −1 standard deviations on a normal curve would include approximately 84 percent of the population. 7. Question: A stanine of 4 falls at the same percentile as a DIQ of 72. 8. Question: On normally distributed curves, which of the following is NOT true? 9. Question: Age comparisons allow a person to compare his or her score at a specific age to the mean and standard deviation of individuals in his or her age peer group. 10. Question: If your score on a test is 85 and the mean is 50, you have to have scored above the 84th percentile.