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Do Test Scores Vary by Who Administered the Test?

Standardized tests for home schoolers are administered in various ways. Little difference was found in scores among students tested by a parent, a private school teacher, a public school teacher, or some other test administrator. And again, the average scores range between the 80th and 90th percentiles (Figure 11.0).

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Footnote: * See Ray (1997) for more detail about the non-equal-interval nature of a simple percentile scale which has distortion especially near the ends of the scale.