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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 and a standard deviation of two. Some web sources attribute stanines to the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Psychometric legend has it that a 1-9 scale was used because of the compactness of recording the score as a single digit but Thorndike〔Thorndike, R. L. (1982). Applied Psychometrics. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin〕 claims that by reducing scores to just nine values, stanines "reduce the tendency to try to interpret small score differences (p. 131)". The earliest known use of stanines was by the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943. ==Calculation== Test scores are scaled to stanine scores using the following algorithm: # Rank results from lowest to highest # Give the lowest 4% a stanine of 1, the next 7% a stanine of 2, etc., according to the following table: The underlying basis for obtaining stanines is that a normal distribution is divided into nine intervals, each of which has a width of 0.5 standard deviations excluding the first and last, which are just the remainder (the tails of the distribution). The mean lies at the centre of the fifth interval. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「stanine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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