- stanine
- stanine "nine-point scale for test scores," introduced by the U.S. Air Force in 1942, from sta(ndard) + nine.
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Stanine — (STAndard NINE) is a method of scaling test scores on a nine point standard scale with a mean of five (5) and a standard deviation of two (2).Some web sources attribute stanines to the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. The earliest known… … Wikipedia
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