Look up: Stanine

1. Stanine
   A stanine (which is abbreviated from 'standard nine') is a standard score ranging from 1 to 9. Stanines are simple to use and place small differences of score in perspective. Stanines have a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.
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2. Stanine
   one of the steps in a nine-point scale of standard scores.
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3. Stanine
   `Stanine` (STAndard NINE) is a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five (5) and a standard deviation of two (2). Some web sources attribute stanines to the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Psychometric legend has it that a 0-9 scale was used because o...
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