Questions about the Norm Or Criterion poster

What’s on the Norm Or Criterion poster?

Norm-referenced against Criterion-referenced, side by side. Norm-referenced: Position within a reference group; Norm-referenced: Standardised scores, percentiles, stanines; Norm-referenced: Distribution roughly fixed in advance; Norm-referenced: Good for selection and ranking; Norm-referenced: Cannot show whether everyone improved; Criterion-referenced: Performance against a stated standard; Criterion-referenced: Driving tests, swimming badges, mastery checks; Criterion-referenced: Everyone can pass, or nobody; Criterion-referenced: Good for certifying competence; Criterion-referenced: Depends entirely on where the line is set; Most national systems are hybrids: criterion-referenced in description, norm-referenc…. Educational reference. A rising pass rate under norm-referencing is arithmetically impossible, which is worth remembering during results week.

Who is the Norm Or Criterion poster for?

Norm Or Criterion belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning assessment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Norm Or Criterion poster?

Read it before interpreting any national grade, standardised score or reading age. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Norm Or Criterion belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Norm Or Criterion?

Blueprinting A Test, Comparative Judgement and Feedback That Works sit alongside Norm Or Criterion in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Blueprinting A TestComparative JudgementFeedback That Works

Is the Norm Or Criterion poster free to download and print?

Yes. Norm Or Criterion downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Norm Or Criterion poster print at?

Norm Or Criterion is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Norm Or Criterion loses nothing.Printing guide