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Unit 11 : Development of Norms of a Test

population adequately, due to which a norm developed on a small group can give incorrect Notes
interpretation.
3. Meaningfulness : By meaningfulness is meant the type of norms. The evolved norms should
be dependent on the test objectives and measurable traits. Where traits increase with an
increase in age, it would be proper to develop age norms or grade norms. However, if
personality has to be measured, then percentile norms or standard score norms should be
applied. In the same way, if the aim of a test is to ascertain the desirability of a student’s
physical or educational achievement, then it would be more adequate to use age or grade
norms, but if the aim of a test is to find out the position of the student in a large group, then
the percentile and standard norms can be used.
4. Comparability : Comparability is an important characteristic of norms. Test norms should
be mutually comparable, only then these norms can be used to compare different students.
Besides, norms should be sufficiently described, that is, the different reference points should
be clearly explained so that the students’ ability can be clearly explained in words.
In the context of above characteristics of norms, the following precautions should be exercised
while determining norms :
(i) Norms should be carefully calculated. For this, scores of a student in different tests should
be referred, and not his scores in only one test.
(ii) The sample used for ascertaining norms should always represent the entire population.

What are Z-score norms ?

Self Assessment
1. Multiple choice questions :
(i) Norms indicate the actual achievemnt of __________ at standardized level.
(a) Students (b) Teachers
(c) Principals (d) Supervisors
(ii) The group of individuals on whom, norms are prepared are called __________.
(a) Age group (b) Reference group
(c) Percentage group (d) grade group.
(iii) Grade norms are also called as __________.
(a) age norms (b) class norms
(c) Percentile norms (d) score norms
(iv) __________ are those scores, the number of students obtaining scores below than that
is equal to the percentage of such students.
(a) Percentile norms (b) age norms
(c) grade norms (d) standard norms
(v) __________ are based on normative group
(a) age norm (b) grade norm
(c) Standard norm (d) Percentile norms
(vi) The ____ is a measurement of the expanse of scores of a group.
(a) Mean (b) standard deviation
(c) Median (d) mode

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