My SAT Is Down and My ACT Is Up: Making Sense of Test Scores

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Making Sense

Reading and Interpreting the Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
John C. Norcross ◽  
Thomas P. Hogan ◽  
Gerald P. Koocher ◽  
Lauren A. Maggio
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
False Positives ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Normal Curve ◽  
False Negatives ◽  
Making Sense

This chapter reviews the numerical indices most frequently encountered in evidence-based practice (EBP), with an emphasis on practical interpretation. The research that fuels EBP abounds with numbers. Making sense of and applying that research requires familiarity with those numbers. This chapter covers features of the normal curve, standard errors, and confidence intervals for both test scores and statistics. Various measures of effect size and their practical interpretation receive special attention. Especially when investigating a condition (for example, depression or alcoholism), a host of rates and ratios play a prominent role in interpreting evidence, including the odds ratio, sensitivity and specificity of measures, false positives and false negatives, and positive and negative predictive power. The chapter also discusses the effect of outliers on research results.

Biracial Testing: The Question of Clinicians' Influence on Children’s Test Performance

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Roy A. Koenigsknecht
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Preschool Age Children

Six speech and language clinicians, three black and three white, administered the Goodenough Drawing Test (1926) to 144 preschoolers. The four groups, lower socioeconomic black and white and middle socioeconomic black and white, were divided equally by sex. The biracial clinical setting was shown to influence test scores in black preschool-age children.

What Do We Want Them To Be When They Grow Up?

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Lyn Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Profound Hearing Loss ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Learning To Listen

Abstract Learning to listen and speak are well-established preludes for reading, writing, and succeeding in mainstream educational settings. Intangibles beyond the ubiquitous test scores that typically serve as markers for progress in children with hearing loss are embedded in descriptions of the educational and social development of four young women. All were diagnosed with severe-to-profound or profound hearing loss as toddlers, and all were fitted with hearing aids and given listening and spoken language therapy. Compiling stories across the life span provides insights into what we can be doing in the lives of young children with hearing loss.

Making (Sense of) Media Innovations

Making Media ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
Arne H. Krumsvik ◽  
Stefania Milan ◽  
Niamh Ní Bhroin ◽  
Tanja Storsul
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense

Making Sense of War

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Stephens ◽  
Nicola Baker
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense
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