Nt1310 Unit 6

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Unit 6 provided a hypothetical situation where one student measured higher on an IQ test versus another student. The following will answer questions about how to view intelligence tests when comparing two separate individuals using the following scenario: one student measured 100, while the other student measured 110 on two different tests.
What can one say about the two students and their scores on these tests?
The purpose of an IQ test is to measure one’s academic intelligence. The average person’s IQ range is 85 – 114. Any score above 114 is considered above average. In the above scenario, there are two students who are taking two separate IQ tests. In this particular situation, we are unable to say that the student who scored higher on the IQ test is more intelligent than the student who scored lower, due to the fact that they did not take the same test. Other factors that may have affect the student’s performance include “emotional tension, anxiety, and unfamiliarity with the testing process” (Edublox, n.d. para. 6). Additionally, as Miller and Lovler (2015) pointed out, one person’s “IQ might have been a percentile rank instead of a raw score” (p. 117).
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The standard error of measurement is based on an individual’s true score and the reliability of a test — the larger the score, the less reliable the test. Since all tests have some margin of error and we do not know how reliable the tests are, we cannot determine whether the measurement for each test can be interpreted in the same