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What's a "normal curve equivalent" #206901 12/03/14 08:24 PM
Joined: May 2013 Posts: 2,157 B blackcat OP Member
OP blackcat Member B Joined: May 2013 Posts: 2,157	Wondering if anyone can explain (to a non-mathy person) what the difference is between a national percentile ranking and a normal curve equivalent. I'm looking at score reports for my kids and for DS for math and reading it is 99 across the board for both math and reading NPRs and NCEs, but for DD, the NCE scores are quite a bit lower than the NPRs in both math and reading.

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
What's a "normal curve equivalent"	blackcat	12/04/14 03:24 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 03:34 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	blackcat	12/04/14 03:53 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	puffin	12/04/14 04:15 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 04:19 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	puffin	12/04/14 04:25 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 04:32 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 04:14 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	blackcat	12/04/14 04:21 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	ElizabethN	12/04/14 04:23 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 04:30 AM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	Zen Scanner	12/04/14 02:46 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 03:05 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	blackcat	12/04/14 03:12 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	Pi22	12/04/14 05:08 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	blackcat	12/04/14 06:36 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	puffin	12/04/14 06:49 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	aeh	12/04/14 07:07 PM
Re: What's a "normal curve equivalent"	Quantum2003	12/05/14 12:29 AM

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