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stanine: Stanine Scores

Description

The Stanine (Standard Nine) scoring system divides students into nine groups based on a normalized distribution. This function is applicable only to binary response data.

These groups correspond to the following percentile ranges:

  • Stanine 1: lowest 4% (percentiles 1-4)

  • Stanine 2: next 7% (percentiles 5-11)

  • Stanine 3: next 12% (percentiles 12-23)

  • Stanine 4: next 17% (percentiles 24-40)

  • Stanine 5: middle 20% (percentiles 41-60)

  • Stanine 6: next 17% (percentiles 61-77)

  • Stanine 7: next 12% (percentiles 78-89)

  • Stanine 8: next 7% (percentiles 90-96)

  • Stanine 9: highest 4% (percentiles 97-100)

Usage

stanine(U, na = NULL, Z = NULL, w = NULL, ...)

Value

A list containing two elements:

stanine

The score boundaries for each stanine level

stanineScore

The stanine score (1-9) for each student

Arguments

U

U is a data matrix of the type matrix or data.frame.

na

na argument specifies the numbers or characters to be treated as missing values.

Z

Z is a missing indicator matrix of the type matrix or data.frame

w

w is item weight vector

...

Internal parameters for maintaining compatibility with the binary data processing system. Not intended for direct use.

References

Angoff, W. H. (1984). Scales, norms, and equivalent scores. Educational Testing Service. (Reprint of chapter in R. L. Thorndike (Ed.) (1971) Educational Measurement (2nd Ed.). American Council on Education.

Examples

Run this code
result <- stanine(J15S500)
# View score boundaries
result$stanine
# View individual scores
result$stanineScore

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