On the SATs, Students Can Be Compared to a Recent

question 57

True/False

On the SATs, students can be compared to a recent norm group by examining their percentile score, or an earlier norm group by examining their standard score. The earlier standard score used a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100.

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Intrapersonal Intelligence

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