| Comparison Name | Availability | Significance |
| Percentile | Basic Reporting - included with all test orders | Percentile scores represent how an individual test-taker's score compares to the scores of other test-takers included in the same assignment. Percentile scores range from 1 through 99, indicating the percentage of scores which would be lower than the test-taker's score. For example, "Person A's total score on the CCTST was in the 84th percentile" means that 84% of the other test-takers who took the CCTST with Person A received a lower score. |
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Aggregate Norms |
Basic Reporting - included with all test orders | Aggregate norms are calculated based on representative sampling of large amalgamations of test taker scores. For example, the CCTST test manual provides norms for three aggregate norms: 2-year colleges, 4-year colleges, and graduate programs. Aggregate norms, if available, are published in a skills test's User Manual and updated from time to time. |
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Client
Group |
Premium Reporting | In support of the testing goals of specific groups of organizations, Insight Assessment calculates aggregate norms for that group of and reports them only to our clients in that group. For example, aggregate CCTST norms for students enrolled in public universities in Tennessee, which is a performance funding state. |
| Client-Specific Comparisons | Premium Reporting | Client-specific comparisons relate a given test-taker's score to the scores of the client's other test-takers. For example, a job applicant at retail store Y gets a score of X on the Business Reasoning Test and the client who owns several stores wishes to know how X compares to the scores of other job applicants. Client-Specific comparisons would relate that score of X to any other comparison group of the client's own test-takers which the client may wish to select: scores of other applicants that same year, or in that same city, or at that same job classification level, or with the same educational background. |
| Client-Specific Benchmarks | Premium Reporting | Client-specific benchmarking enables a client to compare groups of their own test-takers over time. For example, the mean program entrance and program exit total scores of this cohort of graduating seniors as compared to the mean entrance and exit scores of the graduating students over each of the past five years. |
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Customized
Comparison |
Premium Reporting | Client peer group benchmarking enables a group of clients to compare their test takers' scores to the aggregated scores of the test- takers' of the other clients in the group. Client peer groups can be formed based on a variety of selection criteria. For example, charter middle schools, for profit hospitals, military officer training academies, technical colleges in the Southern States accrediting region, police and fire departments, open-admissions public universities, elite college prep schools, optometrists, etc. |
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