Indonesian Malay
old spelling tjantik chantek “pretty, good-
new spelling cantik cantik looking”
old spelling burung burong “bird”
new spelling burung burungstandardization^2 n
in testing, agreement between raters of student performance on the
meaning and interpretation of criteria used for assessment.
standardized test n
a test
awhich has been developed from tryouts and experimentation to ensure
that it is reliable and valid (see reliability, validity)
bfor which norms^2 have been established
c which provides uniform procedures for administering (time limits,
response format, number of questions) and for scoring the test.
standard language n
another term for standard variety
standard nine n
another term for stanine
standards n
also benchmarks, bandscales, curriculum frameworks
a type of educational aim. Standards specify high targets for learning.
Identification of standards seeks to raise levels of learning by specifying
expectations for success in different areas of the curriculum. Standards
have been developed both for pedagogical purposes, i.e. to assist with
professional development and to provide guidance in teaching, as well as
for reasons related to curriculum development and accountability, i.e. for
administrative purposes.
see outcomes-based teaching, standards movement
standard score n
(in testing and statistics) a type of derived score by which scores or
values from different measures can be reported or compared using a
common scale. For example, in order to compare a student’s scores on two
tests of different lengths, a standard score might be used. A standard score
expresses a raw score as a function of its relative position in a distribu-
tion^1 of score, and is thus usually easier to interpret than the raw score.
Commonly used standard scores are the t score and the z score.
standard score