What is a Percentile score?

Here is an explanation of the percentile score.

Updated over a week ago

Track My Progress percentile scores allow students to be ranked among peers who completed the test during the same test window of the year. This is based on the data collected from a nationally representative US sample during the norming period.

The percentiles range from 1-99 and can give a teacher, administrator, or anyone involved in the student’s education an idea of how well the student is learning. For example, if a student is ranked in the 70th percentile, they would be considered above average.

However, if a student is ranked in the 20th percentile, they are below average. Percentile does not measure how many questions the student answered correctly (percent correct). If a student is in the 30th percentile, it means they did better than 29% of the students who took the test during the same month in the norming period.

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