Chapter 4
Multiple Choice Questions
4.1 ________ are any information gathered and collected through your research in the assessment process.
a. Content validity
b. Correlation coefficients
c. Data
d. Standard scores
4.2 A child’s actual age is referred to as the:
a. Mental age
b. Chronological age
c. Standard age
d. Content age
4.3 When doing an assessment, why calculate age as opposed to just asking children their age?
a. Many children do not know when they were born.
b. Children think they know their date of birth but are incorrect.
c. Ages (when doing psychoeducational assessment) are broken down into years, months and days.
d. All of the above are reasons to calculate age as opposed to just asking children their age
4.4 A child whose age is 13-7-24 is 13 years, 7 months and 24 days old:
a. True
b. False
4.5 A student is ten years, four months and twenty days old. How would her age be expressed
numerically?
a. 4-10-20
b. 10-4-20
c. 20-4-10
d. 10-0
4.6 A student is tested on April 16, 2015. His date of birth is February 12, 2005. His age at the time of
testing is:
a. 9-2-4
b. 10-2-4
c. 10-2-25
d. 10-5-4
4.7 A student is tested on July 10, 2015. His date of birth is April 20, 2003. His age at the time of testing
is:
a. 12-3-20
b. 12-5-20
c. 12-2-10
d. 12-2-20
4.8 A student is tested on August 25, 2014. His date of birth is October 20, 2007. His age at the time of
testing is:
a. 7-10-5
b. 6-10-5
c. 6-7-9
d. 6-9-5
4.9 A student is tested on September 13, 2010. His date of birth is October 15, 1999. His age at the time
of testing is:
a. 10-10-28
b. 10-10-18
c. 9-10-28
c. 9-10-10
4.10 A student is tested on October 13, 2014. His date of birth is April 16th, 1999. His age at the time
of testing is:
a. 13-5-27
b. 14-5-27
c. 14-7-5
d. 14-11-0
4.11 A student is tested on June 4th, 2008. His date of birth is March 3, 1997. His age at the time of
testing is:
a. 11-3-1
b. 11-2-18
c. 11-4-18
d. 11-2-28
4.12 The _______ indicates the number of items correctly answered on a given test. In almost all cases,
it is the first score a teacher obtains when interpreting data.
a. Standard score
b. T score
c. Raw score
d. z score
4.13 A student gets 22 correct and 8 wrong on a test. His raw score is:
a. 30
b. 22
c. 8
d. 14
4.14 On a 20 word spelling test, a student got 6 wrong. His raw score is:
a. 20
b. 12
c. 8
d. 14
4.15 A percentile rank of 95 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students
in the class.
a. 5
b. 15
c. 60
d. 95
4.16 A percentile rank of 40 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students
in the class.
a. 60
b. 15
c. 40
d. 95
4.17 The percentage correct on a test is not the same as the percentage of people scoring below a given
score, the percentile rank.
a. True
b. False
4.18 The _______ percentile normally signifies the average ranking or average performance.
a. 25th
b. 50th
c. 75th
d. 95th
4.19 Quartiles divide scores into ______ units:
a. 4
b. 8
c. 10
d. 25
4.20 Deciles divide scores into ______ equal units.
a. 4
b. 10
c. 25
d. 50
4.21 The fifth decile is the point at which _______ of the scores fall below
a. 5%
b. 15%
c. 50%
d. 95%
4.22 The eighth decile is the point at which _______ of the scores fall below
a. 8%
b. 15%
c. 50%
d. 80%
4.23 Normally, standard scores have a mean of ____ and a standard deviation of ____.
a. 50/5
b. 100/10
c. 100/15
d. 50/15
4.24 A student with a standard score of 90 on a test with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 5
would be __________ the mean.
a. 2 standard deviations above
b. 2 standard deviations below
c. 1 standard deviation above
d. 1 standard deviations below
4.25 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of
85 would be in the classification:
a. Low Average
b. Average
c. High Average
d. Superior
4.26 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of
95 would be a in the classification:
a. Low Average
b. Average
c. High Average
d. Superior
4.27 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of
115 would be a in the classification:
a. Low Average
b. Average
c. High Average
d. Superior
4.28 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of
125 would be a in the classification:
a. Low Average
b. Average
c. High Average
d. Superior
4.29 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales)which of
the following scores would be in the Low Average range
a. 75
b. 85
c. 95
d. 105
4.30 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales)which of
the following scores would be in the High Average range
a. 75
b. 85
c. 105
d. 115
4.31 On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) which of
the following scores would be in the Superior range
a. 95
b. 105
c. 115
d. 125
4.32 _______ is a type of standard scores that is often seen when doing psychoeducational assessments:
a. z scores
b. T scores
c. Stanines
d. All of the above are types of standard scores
4.33 A _______ indicates how many standard deviations a score is above or below the mean.
a. z score
b. T score
c. Stanine
d. All of the above
4.34 A ________ is a standard score distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.
a. z score
b. T score
c. Stanine
d. All of the above have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one
4.35 If a student has a z score of +1.5 this means that he scored:
a. 1 standard deviation above the mean on the test
b. 1.5 standard deviations above the mean on the test
c. 1 standard deviation below the mean on the test
d. 1.5 standard deviations below the mean on the test
4.36 If a student has a z score of -1.7, this means that he scored:
a. 1 standard deviation above the mean on the test
b. 1.7 standard deviations above the mean on the test
c. 1 standard deviation below the mean on the test
d. 1.7 standard deviations below the mean on the test
4.37 ______ = Test Score – Mean Score/Standard Deviation
a. z scores
b. T scores
c. Stanines
d. None of the above
4.38 Suppose a student had an IQ of 115 on an IQ test with a mean of 100 a standard deviation of 15. His
z score is:
a. -2.0
b. -1.0
c. +1.0
d. +2.0
4.39 _________ have a mean of 50 with a standard deviation of 10.
a. z scores
b. T scores
c. Stanines
d. None of the above
4.40 T scores have a mean of _____ with a standard deviation of 10.
a. 15
b. 50
c. 75
d. 95
4.41 T scores have a mean of 50 with a standard deviation of ____.
a. 5
b. 10
c. 15
d. 50
4.42 A T score of 30 on a test puts a student:
a. 1 standard deviation above the mean on the test
b. 2 standard deviations above the mean on the test
c. 1 standard deviation below the mean on the test
d. 2 standard deviations below the mean on the test
4.43 A T score of 60 on a test puts a student:
a. 1 standard deviation above the mean on the test
b. 2 standard deviations above the mean on the test
c. 1 standard deviation below the mean on the test
d. 2 standard deviations below the mean on the test
4.44 The formula for _______ is 50 + 10z
a. z scores
b. T scores
c. Stanines
d. None of the above
4.45 A student who scored 1.5 standard deviations below the mean would have a T score of:
a. 65
b. 55
c. 45
d. 35
4.46 A student who scored 2 standard deviations above the mean would have a T score of:
a. 65
b. 70
c. 75
d. 30
4.47 A _______ is a type of standard score that has a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.
a. z scores
b. T scores
c. Stanine
d. None of the above
4.48 A stanine is a type of standard score that has a mean of _____ and a standard deviation of 2.
a. 5
b. 10
c. 50
d. 90
4.49 A stanine is a type of standard score that has a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of _____.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 10
d. 15
4.50 Stanine scores can range from _________ .
a. 1 to 5
b. 1 to 9
c. 1 to 15
c. -1.00 to +1.00
4.51 A student who gets an age equivalent score of 10-5 is performing as well as the average
a. 10th grade student
b. 10 year-5 month old student
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
4.52 A student who gets an age equivalent score of 9-4 is performing as well as the average
a. 9th grade student
b. 10 year-5 month old student.
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
4.53 A child who gets a grade equivalent score of 10.5 is performing as well as:
a. A 10 year-5 month old student
b. 10th grade-5 month old student
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
ANSWER KEY
4.10 a
4.11 a
4.12 d
4.13 b
4.14 d
4.15 d
4.16 c
4.17 a
4.18 b
4.19 a
4.20 b
4.21 c
4.22 d
4.23 c
4.24 b
4.25 a
4.26 b
4.27 c
4.28 d
4.29 b
4.30 d
4.31 d
4.32 d
4.33 a
4.34 a
4.35 b
4.36 d
4.37 a
4.38 c
4.39 b
4.40 b
4.41 b
4.42 d
4.43 a
4.44 b