Reading boys

[deontological]

Thus the youngest child at a certain sitting might have a 31 August birthdate compared to the oldest of, say, 1 September the previous year and is effectively a full year younger in actual age. The age-standardisation of scores addresses that imbalance of exam performance due to that age difference.

As I pondered on this whole notion of age normalisation of raw scores, it dawned on me that the assumption of a fair adjustment to the children’s raw performance to account for their age difference is exactly that: an “assumptionâ€