Percentile rank

In an ideal society, access to education would be portrayed as a top priority. All individuals with the desire to further pursue their education would have the necessary resources to do so. Unfortunately, this is not how societies ideals have been structured. Instead, the younger generation associates education as an unnecessary expense. This ideal fluctuates the vision set by sociologists like Marx/Engels, and Durkheim to achieve a good society, and limits upward mobility. According to Durkheim…

“Can I get a Wolfpack?” someone yells across the field. “Wolfpack!” I yell back with 190 other schoolmates. We repeat this call and response two more times before letting out a fierce cry. I am proud to be a member of this tradition, also known as the end-of-practice call of the Plano West Mighty Wolf Band. I am also glad to be a part of this organization because it has connected me to many friends at Plano West. But what a majority of those friends do not know is that I had never been even…

communities and to the society as a whole. Research has posed that obesity services should combine dietary, physical activity and behavioral factors (Newson, et. al, 2013). Obesity is defined as a body mass index equivalent or greater than the 95th percentile of a child 's body weight or body mass index more than 30 kg/ms (WHO, 2010). Obesity identifies biologically those…

REASON FOR REFERRAL: The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V) was administered to G.A.H on September 27th and 29th to fulfill a graduate course requirement for the Queens College School Psychology Program. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: G.A.H. is in the 5th grade at Public School 110. Mrs. H reported she, had some difficulty during her pregnancy, which caused G.A.H. to be born premature at 34 weeks as opposed to 38-40 weeks. Mrs. H also mentioned that her daughter’s…

students a percentile based off of others taking the same test at that time. Criterion-referenced tests score students, usually on a scale, based on how many questions they answer correctly (Harris, et al). According to Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, the standardized tests created for the NCLB typically incorporate both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced test scorings. Both scorings could help a student and his school to see how he ranks…

convert the obtained raw scores on each subtest to standard scores based on a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. The standard scores provided in the manual appendices are grouped according to age- and grade-norms. The manual also provides percentile ranks, normal curve equivalents, stanines, and grade equivalents corresponding to standard scores as optional…

I was born into a normal and quiet family like many other people are born into normal family with a loving mother and mature father but there are still many differences between me and many other kid my age one of the major differences is that both my parents are professional musicians that were both good Christians people (My mother is a Baptist and my father is a Pentecostal ) they were very good people but they had very high expectations for me and many of them I could not meet and for this…

The Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 (BASC-2), a revision of the original BASC, is a multi-method and multidimensional assessment. In the revision of this assessment there were multiple changes “designed to evaluate various aspects of behavior and personality, including positive adaptive as well as negative clinical dimensions” (Myers et al, 2010). In 2004, AGS Publishing and Pearson Assessments published this psychological test. In hopes of creating an assessment that was useful in…

The title of the test in review is the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Fourth Edition, also known as the TONI-4. Linda Brown, Rita J. Sherbenou and Susan K. Johnsen originally wrote the test. The test is currently published by PRO-ED, which is located at 8700 Shoal Creek Boulevard in Austin, Texas. The company’s website is www.proedinc.com. It is recommended that the testing process take approximately 15 minutes, although, there is no specific time limit for test takers to respond during the…

In today’s society, survival revolves upon the amount of money in your pocket and how high your debt has stacked up against you. When those two aspects are unbalanced amongst a large amount of citizens, the economy will start slowly eroding into a crisis. The most memorable occurrence of this was when the economy seemed to have completely disintegrated in 1929 during the Great Depression. Most people’s best bet at getting by was to be prepared for the long wait at the soup lines. Although the…