What do the terms on the reports mean?
These scores usually appear most standardized achievement tests: RAW: Raw score – The number of questions a student gets right. SS: Developmental Standard Score: This number describes a student’s location on an achievement continuum. The scale corresponds to typical performances of grade groups on each test at certain times of the year. They have no built-in meaning. To interpret the SS, the values associated with typical performance in each grade must be used as reference points. These numbers are used to compute other statistics. GE: Grade Equivalent is a number that gives the student’s location on an achievement continuum and describes performance in terms of grade level and month. For example, if a fourth grader scores 5.6 on a test, his/her score is like the one a student at the end of the 6th month of 5th grade would likely score. It means the student scored as well as the average student in the sixth month of the fifth grade would have scored. (High achieving student’s typically
