... are still useful in educating today's students. Norm-Referenced Tests Norm-referenced tests compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already taken the same test, called the "norming group." Scores are reported in percentiles, quartiles, stanines, and/or grade equivalents. Norm-referenced tests are designed to compare students" scores. Commercial norm-referenced ... seen in the local curriculum. Examples of these are: the California Achievement Test (CAT), the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), which includes the Terra Nova, the Iowa Test of Basic...

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... and how it ranks within different cultures and genders. The history of the SAT has origins that date back to the First World War. The original test, known as the "Army Alpha" was an IQ test administered by the United States Army to evaluate the intelligence of new recruits. Following the war, the Army Alpha was adapted and transformed for the purpose ... of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. In 1933, President of Harvard University James Bryant Conant, ... mathematical secti...

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