If a third-grade child receives a grade equivalent score of 5.2, what does that mean?
A. The child is reading at a fifth-grade level.
B. The student should be promoted to fifth grade.
C. The child's score is about the same as the score a fifth grader would have received using the same material.
D. The student scored better than about 75 percent of the participants in a national sample of fifth graders.
C/Explanation
A. This is how the score is often interpreted, but it is not the case.
B. This is how the score is often interpreted, but it is not the case.
C. This is the correct interpretation of a grade equivalent score.
D. Grade equivalent and percentile scores are different ways of looking at the same data.
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