http://tinyurl.com/23ah8u2

This will not allow me to cut and paste, and my question concerns table 4 on page 7 of the Assessment Bulletin regarding technical issues.

The bulletin is a comparison between WJIII and Weschlers. I was surprised and confused by the norming plan in the WJIII. It says that the following variables are considered: race, sex, hispanic origin, type of schooling, parent's education, etc.

I don't understand what they mean, but it looks like they norm each student's score according to those variables. For example, assuming for the sake of argument that children from highly educated parents get higher scores, that advantage would be removed by norming children of highly educated parents together.

Am I understanding this correctly? I found this article and I am even more baffled. Can one of you brilliant people translate down to someone like me who is not that smart? I'm not putting myself down, I'm just trying to communicate that I can't figure out what the heck this means. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11272618

I really appreciate your help.



Last edited by Treasuremapper; 05/19/10 06:28 PM.