Chap 2 Psychological Testing Norms

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING-
NORMS
M. A. Part I
Semester I
By
Balaji Niwlikar
https://www.careershodh.com/
Basic Statistical Concepts:
 Measures of Central tendencies:
 Mean
 Average
 Median
 Middle value
 Mode
 Most repeated score
 Measures of Variability:
 Standard deviation
 Quartile deviation
 Range
 Z Scores
Norms
 Standard/Average performance .
 Methodology – to understand psy tests and proper
interpretation of scores.
 Norms, Reliability , Validity, Item Analysis and
Test Design.
 Raw Scores - 35 in English. 20 in math ????
 Expressed in different units –kg, hour , no .of
correct/incorrect responses, no. of trails,
 So we cant just directly compare it.
 It can only interpreted in clearly defined and
uniform frame of references .
Norms
 Definition:
“Norms may be defined as the average performance on a particular test
made by a standardization sample.”
Standardization sample-true representation population, cross cultural,
 Empirically established .
 To discover where S/he falls in that situation - we convert Raw
scores into Derived Score-

 Derived Score-
 Difficulty level – all score low 1,5,10 /1000. we can compare D scores
 2 objectives /purpose/ goals of Derived Score .
1. To indicate the individual’s relative standing in the normative
sample and thus permit an evaluation of her/his performance in
reference to other persons.
2. To provide comparable measures that permits a direct comparison
of the individuals performance on different tests.
Norms
 Types if evaluation
1. Formative /concurrent Evaluation
 To evaluate learning
 Not standard and Informal way
2. Summative Evaluation
 To find out which area is strong / weak
 Useful in Training program, language ,math
3. Diagnostic Evaluation
 At end of program
4. Follow up Evaluation
 In Corporate areas
 Attitude changing Program
Norms
 Steps in developing Norms:
1. Defining the target population
 Normative group -based on intention of test .
2. Selecting the sample from the target population
 True representative sample.
 Cross sectional
 Large sample
 Random sampling
3. Standardizing the conditions
 Test administration must be standard, valid
Types of Norms:
 Derived Score-
 Expressed in two major ways i.e types
1st Developmental Level Attended or

2nd relative position within a specific group
Types of Norms:
Norms
Developmental Within Group

Norms Norms
Percentile Standard Scores Sten Stenine Deviation IQ
Age Grade Ordinal scale
Developmental Norms
 A way to attach meaning to scores.
 To indicate how far an individual has progressed the normal
developmental path.
 Ex – children smile after certain age.
 Binet proposed early developmental age norms and gave
concept of Mental Age
 Mental Age-
 Binet –Simon
 Items passed by the majority of 8 years old in standardised
sample were grouped together and placed in the 8 year level.
= Mental Age of 8.
 8 year old Sheldon Cupper scored well on intelligence test of
80 year old –means he has Mental Age of 80 year old
Developmental Norms
1. Age equivalent norms:
 Criteria – Ave. performance of standard sample at certain
age level.
 Most suitable for trait or ability which increases
systematically.
 e.g. Height, weight, Cog. Abilities, intelligence etc.
 Limitations –
1. It is not fully standard and uniform unit for measurement for
over all period.
2. Some of the traits can not be explained by age norms though they
are related to age.
Ex- maze learning will not develop after adolescent, IQ will not
increased after 16 but vocabulary can.
Developmental Norms
2. Grade Equivalent norms
 Like age equivalent norms – criterion –Grade/Standard
 In field of educations . Achievement test & educational test.
 Ex -4th grade performance in math ,language skill.
 The average no. of problems solved correctly on a math test
by the 4th Grader in a standardization sample is 23,them raw
score of 23 corresponds to grade equivalent of 4
 It can be expressed in decimal (4.5); If we considered months .
 Limitations –
 Same students in different subjects not comparables (math
with social sciences).
 Not suitable for higher grades level ( 1 subject for 2 years)
 Not suitable for subjects which occurs rapidly growth in
lower grades ;will be same in higher grade
Developmental Norms
3. Ordinal scales –
 Not like statistics (providing rank order to individual without
knowledge about amount of differences between them )
 Designed to identify the stage reached by the child in the
development of specific behavior functions
 Originated from research of child psychology
 Based on Model of Guttman Scale or simplex(1944)- successful
performance at one level implies success at all lower level.
 Success in functions of locomotion , concept formation, etc.
 Gesell Developmental Schedule (1947)–child has attained a
certain level in –motor, adaptive ,language ,& personal-social.
 Development theory of Piaget – schema ,object permanence
Within-Group Norms
 Almost all psychological test provides it.
 Used most near comparable standard group ex
- same chronological age /same school grade.
 Within group scores / norms have uniform
and clearly defined quantitative meaning .
 Used in most of statistical analysis.
four levels or scales of measurement. (noir)
 Nominal scales –
 involve classification or categorization based on one or more distinguishing
characteristics,
 Ex - “men,” “1,” “B,” or “women,” “2,” or “A.”
 Ordinal scales-
 permit classification and rank ordering on some characteristic
 Ex- merit list of SP College.
 Interval scales -
 contain equal intervals between numbers.
 But like ordinal scales, interval scales contain no absolute zero point
 Ex -IQs of 80 and 100
 Ratio Scales
 In addition to all the properties of nominal, ordinal, and interval
measurement,
 It scale has a true zero point.
Within-Group Norms
1. Percentiles:
 Most common and popular
 Percentile -% of persons (standard sample) fall below a given point.
 Percentile and Percentile Rank are two different concepts.
 ex – if the 30% of the person obtain fewer than 18 problems correct
on math then raw score of 18 corresponds to 30th percentile (P30) i.e.
percentile rank is 30 and percentile score is 18
 Lower the percentile the poorer the persons standing.
 PR 50 –median .PR 25 and PR 75 are called 1st n 3rd quartile points ..
 Different from percentage ( %) – raw score where percentile is
derived score.
 PR 0 & PR 100?
 a raw score lower/more than obtained in in the standard sample.
Percentiles:
 Simple to understand.
 Familiar to population.
 simple for computation.
 Percentiles are placed on an Ordinal Scale means
it regarded as rank in group of 100
 Limitation – inequality of unites
 The distance between the extreme PRs is larger
than the PRs in the middle of the NDC.
 Percentiles can be converted into large number
of other norms.
Percentile
Within-Group Norms:
 Standard scores :
 Increasing trend . most satisfactory derived score.
 a SS is a raw score that has been converted from one scale to
another scale, where the latter scale has some arbitrarily set
Mean and SD.
 Raw scores may be converted to standard scores to easily
interpret.
 With a standard score, the position of a test taker’s
performance relative to other test takers is readily apparent.
 SS can obtained by Linearly & Non linearly transformed
 Ex -z scores, T scores, stanines, and some other standard scores.
Standard scores :
A. Linearly transformed score –
 They retain exact numerical relation of the
original raw score.
 Standard score duplicate all the properties of
raw score thus all results are distortion less .
 Units of the scale are equal so that they
convey the same meaning throughout the
whole range of the scale.
 They removes the problem of inequality.

z scores
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Linearly transformed standard score
1. Standard score/ z scores –
 It express the persons distance from the mean in the
terms of SD of the distribution.
 zero plus or minus one scale. This is so because it has a
mean set at 0 and a SD set at 1.
 z=(X-M)/SD
Limitation of Linearly transformed standard score
If one distribution is skewed and other is normally distributed
then two standard scores cant be compared
Lay people may uncomfortable with z-scores.
 don't like negative numbers
 uncomfortable with a z-score of 0 being average.
 Ex- Swapnil got z-score of 0.
Non Linearly transformed score
A. Non Linearly transformed score –
 when the data under consideration are not normally
distributed yet need compare with normal
distributions .
 Here ,the resulting SS does not necessarily have a
direct numerical relationship to the original, raw
score.
 Examples
1. mental age,
2. percentile score,
3. Normalized standard score
Non Linearly transformed score
 Normalized standard score
 SS which are expressed in the terms of normal
distribution
 Maeshall & Hales (1972) ‘’Normalized standard score
which have been adjusted to produce a normal
frequency distribution and convert to a standard base
with pre assign Mean & SD’’.
 NSS can expressed in same form of linearly transformed SS
i.e. with Mean= 0 and SD =1.
 Examples
 T scores ,stanines, sten ,C scores , Deviation IQ
Normalized standard score
1. T Scores
 called a fifty plus or minus ten scale; i.e, a scale
with a mean set at 50 and a standard deviation
set at 10.
 Devised by W. A. McCall (1922, 1939) and named
a T score in honor of his professor E. L. Thorndike,
 This system is composed of a scale that ranges
from 5 SD below the mean to 5 SD above the
mean.
 T score = 50+/-10z
Stanines Stenines=
Stenines=5+1.96Zn
3.
 Standard nine.
5+1.96Zn
 Distribute entire scores into 9 units
 It has mean @ 5 and SD at 1.96
 If researcher knows PR scores corresponding Stanines
value can be calculated.
 Stanines= 5+1.96 Zn
 Zn –Normalized z scores (we already calculated PR.)
 +v –reasonably easy to understand .
 Useful to counselor, educational psychologist , selection
& recruitment process.ad
stanine
 Sten scores:
 They are also called as Standard Ten.
 After proposing 16PF Raymond Cattle
proposed the concept of Sten scores.
 It distributes entire score range into 10 units.
 It has mean of 5.5 and SD of 2.
 If researcher knows PR scores corresponding
Stanines value can be calculated.
Sten scores= 5.5+2Zn

Sten scores= 5.5+2Zn
Sten Scores
5. C Scores
 G.P. Guilford
 11 standard units
 Ranger from 0 to 10
 Deviation IQ
 IQ
 Not comparable for different age group IQ of
115 @ Age 10 and IQ of 125 @Age of 12
 Deviation IQ is a Normalized standard score
has M=100 & SD 16 for Stanford Binet Scale
 Deviation IQ is a Normalized standard score
has M=100 & SD 15 for Wheschlers
intelligence test .
Relativity of Norms
 The theory talks about how norms are
interchangeable.
 It refers to the concept that if researcher knows one
type of norm he can predict about the other.

e.g. If researcher knows about percentile score of a
subject that score can be converted into a Stanine or
Sten score.
 But in the case of linear norms relativity
experiences limitations.
 For conversion of the score one should know the
shape of the distribution too.

Relativity of Norms
 Three principle reasons of test score variation –
1. Content –verbal/ numerical /spatial
2. Scale unit-different SDs-16/15
3. Standardization of samples- slow/Ave/better will matter
 Normative Sample- large, representative, selective factors, defined
population
 National Anchor Norms –solution for the lack of comparability –
equipercentile method –scores are considered equivalent when
they have equal percentiles for different test .
 Specific Norms –standardize test on more narrowly defined
population( ex 1st FYBA students ) – local norms
 Fixed reference group- college board SAT -1 st
 Item Response Theory- used for difficulty. To established uniform
‘sample free’ scale of measurement ie applicable to person/group
Computers & Interpretation of Test
Scores
 Computers play an important role in generating
data analysis.
 It helps in conduction of experiments.
 It influences the process of test construction.
 Calculation of item total correlation, item analysis
is possible with the help of computers.
 It is useful in the method of factor analysis too.
 Following calculations became popular as well as
possible due to computers.
Computers & Interpretation of Test Scores
Exploratory
factor
analysis
Online test Confirmatory

conduction factory analysis
Computers
helps in
Cross cultural
studies New methods
of reliability
Easier validity
computation
Computers & Interpretation of Test Scores
 Computer scoring
 Interactive computer system
 System for Interactive Guideline Information (SIGI)
 Major concern
1. To score comparability
2. Narration interpretation scoring
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING-

 To discover where S/he falls in that situation - we convert Raw

scores into Derived Score-

1st Developmental Level Attended or

Developmental Within Group

Percentile Standard Scores Sten Stenine Deviation IQ

Age Grade Ordinal scale

Sten scores= 5.5+2Zn

type of norm he can predict about the other.

shape of the distribution too.

Online test Confirmatory

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