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stanine Psychol.|ˈstænaɪn|
[Blend of standard n. and nine n.]
A nine-point scale on which test scores can be grouped in descending order of achievement, first developed by the United States Air Force in 1942 (see quot. 1968); also, a score on such a scale. Freq. attrib.
1945Sun (Baltimore) 1 Oct. 6/5 The result..was a ‘stanine’ rating (stanine being an invented word, from ‘standard of nine’). 1957E. R. Hilgard Introd. Psychol. (ed. 2) xvi. 400/2 A score of..650 on a Graduate Record Examination, or 8 on the Air Force stanine scale is above that achieved by 93 per cent of those on whom the test was calibrated. 1961A. Anastasi Psychol. Testing (ed. 2) iv. 93 Raw scores can readily be converted to stanines by arranging the original scores in order of size and then assigning stanines in accordance with the normal curve percentages. 1968Internat. Encycl. Social Sci. I. 38/1 Single-digit standard scores, ranging from 1 to 9, with a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2 are called stanines (standard nines). 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 330 The performance of the Experimental children placed them at the second stanine with respect to French⁓speaking children in Montreal. 1976Woman's Day (U.S.) Nov. 62/2 But few educators use such simple terms anymore. Instead, we may be unnecessarily confused by a stanine score. |