Letter-Word Identification: 162
Passage Comprehension: 130
Brief Reading Cluster: 167
Calculation: 140
Applied Problems: 154
Brief Math Cluster: 156
Spelling: 114
Writing Samples: 123
Brief Writing Cluster: 119
Academic Skills: 148
Academic Applications: 145
Brief Achievement: 149 [/quote]
Percentiles: she probably didn't give you percentiles because most of these scores (everything above 134) are above the 99th %ile, so they would (amazingly!) not be particularly meaningful. In that range, the standard scores actually spread performance out better than percentiles. FYI, his top score is at a percentile of 99.99, or one in 10,000!
And if anyone really has an obsession with the normal curve, there's a free iPhone app from PAR (publishers of assessment instruments) that has a normal curve and conversion function for standard scores, z scores, scaled scores, percentiles, and T scores). Search "PAR assessment toolkit" in the app store. You can enter any one of those types of scores, and see the equivalent in all the other types of norm-referenced scores. It also has a nice stopwatch, which is mostly what I use it for when testing.
The last cluster: Academic Skills is a composite derived from the basic skills subtest of each academic area: letter-word ID, calculations, and spelling. Similarly, Academic Applications is a composite derived from the reasoning subtest of each area: passage comprehension, applied problems, and
writing samples. The cluster that is missing here is Academic Fluency, which would include reading fluency, math fluency, and writing fluency subtests.
Broad scores: Yes, those require the fluency measures, which she probably didn't administer because of his age and also because, at this age, they will become measures of fine-motor speed, rather than true fluency.
Last edited by aeh; 05/01/14 10:51 AM.
