COMMONLY USED ASSESSMENT and SCREENING …

Grade equivalents for the fifth grade, for example, range from 5.0 to 5.9 with September=0 and June=9. Grade equivalents may be misinterpreted. Though age-equivalent and grade-equivalent scores are easy to understand and interpret, they are also subject to misinterpretation based on unjustified assumptions about the meaning of the scores. ................
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