The Stanine (Standard Nine) scoring system divides students into nine groups
based on a normalized distribution. This function is applicable only to
binary response data.
These groups correspond to the following percentile ranges:
Stanine 1: lowest 4% (percentiles 1-4)
Stanine 2: next 7% (percentiles 5-11)
Stanine 3: next 12% (percentiles 12-23)
Stanine 4: next 17% (percentiles 24-40)
Stanine 5: middle 20% (percentiles 41-60)
Stanine 6: next 17% (percentiles 61-77)
Stanine 7: next 12% (percentiles 78-89)
Stanine 8: next 7% (percentiles 90-96)
Stanine 9: highest 4% (percentiles 97-100)
Usage
stanine(U, na = NULL, Z = NULL, w = NULL)
# S3 method for default
stanine(U, na = NULL, Z = NULL, w = NULL)
# S3 method for binary
stanine(U, na = NULL, Z = NULL, w = NULL)
Value
A list containing two elements:
stanine
The score boundaries for each stanine level
stanineScore
The stanine score (1-9) for each student
Arguments
U
Either an object of class "exametrika" or raw data. When raw data is given,
it is converted to the exametrika class with the dataFormat function.
na
Values to be treated as missing values.
Z
Missing indicator matrix of type matrix or data.frame. Values of 1 indicate
observed responses, while 0 indicates missing data.
w
Item weight vector specifying the relative importance of each item.
References
Angoff, W. H. (1984). Scales, norms, and equivalent scores. Educational Testing Service.
(Reprint of chapter in R. L. Thorndike (Ed.) (1971) Educational Measurement (2nd Ed.).
American Council on Education.