I have never heard of an 11, for example, being a ceiling score.
No, me neither!
They are ceilings because she never hit enough questions wrong in the section to end the test. Say if the cut off was 4 wrong, she never got more than three wrong in a row.
Generally, if kids get the harder questions correct, they got a good portion of the easier questions correct as well, so they get a high score. For my dd, her incorrect answers were loaded towards the beginning of the subsections, not the end. So, even though she got a lot wrong, in theory since she got the harder ones correct, there is still a chance that if there were even HARDER questions, she would have gotten them correct as well and therefore gotten a higher score.
Last edited by Silly Girl; 04/01/10 10:06 PM.
