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What does PR stand for?

Percentile Rank


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Samples in periodicals archive:
m faced with a parent who wants help interpreting some standardized test scores Often, the test scores are in the form of a percentile rank On a fairly regular basis, I?
Results Table 1 provides the mean, standard deviation, and median percentile rank for AJOT and OTJR on each of the five JCR metrics collapsing across the years 1996 through 2005.
Specific targets include improvement in percentile rank of the Philippines in the World Banks Governance Indicators particularly the Rule of Law index and the Control of Corruption index.
The company in the study with the very best performance received a percentile rank of 100, while the company with the very worst performance received a percentile rank of 0.
A percentile rank of 50 is considered better than half or worse than half of other scores.
97; therefore, the results would not depend on the type of score (raw, percentile, or scale) used; and (b) many practitioners use the percentile rank in their assessment decisions and reports.
In addition, it provides a means for detecting malingering and a percentile rank of the examinee based upon norms from nearly 4,000 men and women spanning the entire age range.
The average percentile ranks for home schoolers on a basic battery of national achievement tests were 86 percent (high regulation), 85 percent (moderate regulation), and 86 percent (low regulation), compared with the average percentile rank for public school students which was, by definition, 50.

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