Sheet, The What and Why of B Scores
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content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: This undated sheet, published by the Public School Publishing Company of Bloomington, Indiana, describes the use of the “B score” or basal scale in comparing the results of various tests. B scores, as defined here, are test scores made in different subjects after the scores have been transformed to a common basal level. In the example given, at the end of the fourth grade a student takes tests of intelligence, reading, operations of arithmetic, arithmetical problems, language, handwriting, spelling, and composition. The raw score on each of these separate examinations is compared to the median scores obtained by students at different grade levels on these tests, and the student is assigned a B score for each examination corresponding to the median. In the hypothetical case presented, B scores range from 3.6 (e.g. 6/10 of the way through third grade) to 6.2 (e.g. 2/10 of the way through sixth grade). Inspection of the scores suggestions not only whether a student should be promoted but what areas of learning might need work.
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content: The Public School Publishing Company, publishers of this sheet, began providing B scores for its various tests in 1923. No author is listed. An annotation in the top right corner that reads: Monroe.
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content: See also MA.316371.023 (part).
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content: Reference:
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content: “B-Score Table,” <I>Educational Research Bulletin</>, May 30, 1923, 2 #11, p. 176.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.133
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content: 1990.0034
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content: 1990.0034.133
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 15 cm x 23 cm; 5 29/32 in x 9 1/16 in