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Scaled Scores

Scaled scores provide a useful measuring tool for assessment programs and are particularly useful in providing a basis for long-term comparisons of examination results. What Are Scaled Scores? Scaled scores are transformed raw scores that use a numerical procedure that involves the overall test mean, the standard deviation and the original raw score. For every possible raw score on a test form, there is a corresponding scaled score. When multiple forms of a test are used, or when results are compared from year to year, scaled scores are needed to adjust for possible differences in test forms. Why Eliminate Raw Scores? Scaled scores are intended to make scores more meaningful by defining a scale of measurement that is not tied to a particular form of a test. Scaled scores help resolve confusion among users of the score reports when there are changes in the testing program. A major benefit of scaled scores for test takers is that it provides a way for them to compare their level of performance from one administration of the exam to another. A reporting scale that remains constant across test forms enables candidates to make comparisons on how they did.
Interpret Raw and Scaled Scores
Destination ImagiNation rules require that certain scores be scaled, or graded on a curve. A set of scores is scaled by setting the highest actual score to the value of the highest possible score and distributing the other scores proportionally. Scaling helps judges to score all performances fairly. Judges can set an early performance as a standard, and grade other performances by comparing them to the standard. This method prevents early performers or late performers from being at a comparative advantage or disadvantage. The resulting scores might be unusually high or unusually low, depending on the final ranking of the standard performance. Therefore, scores are scaled to eliminate this variation. Scaling also provides an objective standard when a challenge level competition must be split into two sites with two panels of appraisers. Scaling makes the scores comparable, and prevents teams judged by conservative appraisers from being at at disadvantage.

In Destination ImagiNation tournaments, the component raw scores -- the Instant Challenge, the central component of the Team Challenge, and the Team Choice component of the Team challenge -- are each summed and scaled separately. A team's final total score is the sum of their scaled scores, minus any deductions. The DI Scoring Program converts the raw scores into final or scaled scores automatically. But it doesn't hurt to understand how it's done. To scale a set of scores: 1. List the scores in descending order. For example, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 2. Set the highest score in the set equal to the maximum possible score for that aspect of the challenge. For example, 5, the actual score, is set to 100, the maximum score. 3. To apportion the other scores, divide the maximum possible score by the maximum actual score. For example, 100/5 = 20. 4. Multiply the other scores in the set by that factor. For example:
Raw score 5 4 3 2 1 Scaled score 100 80 60 40 20

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