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    requires adjusting the values for age, gender, and height(9). This adjustment requires measuring the child’s height, determining the child’s height’s percentile based on national or international height tables, measuring and recording the child’s blood pressure (BP), and finally checking if his BP falls within or above the corresponding BP percentiles in the BP tables. This cumbersome process makes the interpretation of the BP level time consuming and too complex to be applied in everyday pediatric

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    hearing loss plotted pure-tone air conduction thresholds at 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz, and pure-tone averages (PTAs) for 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz, against corresponding 95th percentiles.23 Similarly, pure-tone air conduction thresholds at 8000 Hz were plotted against corresponding 90th percentile values.24 Ninety-fifth percentile values for 500, ment was prevalent among all age groups. A lesser percentage of subjects had hearing loss in the moderate to profound categories. Profound impairment was most

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    Member’s conscientiousness result put him in the upper percentile at 74%, indicating that he is well organized, and reliable. Member’s extroversion score put him in the lower percentile at 12%, which indicates that he likes to spend quiet time by himself. Member’s agreeableness score was in the upper percentage at 70%, this indicating that he is good-natured and tend to consider others feelings. Last, his neuroticism score in the lower percentile of 17%, indicating that he tend to be calm, secure, and

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    physical education, I ran a mile in 9:37. I reached the 50th percentile, which was 10:00, but I did not reach the presidential goal of 8:23. To improve my cardiovascular fitness, I will ride my bike, hike, and jog more. Currently, I walk my dog most days, but on weekends I will set aside more time to go for a jog or hike in a park to improve my cardiovascular fitness. During the fitness testing, I did 20 push-ups. I reached the 50th percentile of 12 push-ups, and I could have reached the presidential

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    Caesar is a 7-year-old second grader. Caesar claims that he does not like math. To understand Caesar’s results, you must understand the terms raw score, standard score, percentile rank, and grade/age equivalent. Caesar was tested in basic concepts (numeration, rational numbers, geometry), operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, mental computation), and applications (measurement, time, money, estimation, interpreting data, problem solving). From Caesar’s scores on the Key Math

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    25th percentile of the model I converted 25 into a decimal number (25/100) and then plugged that decimal number (0.25) into invNorm in the calculator which gave us invNorm (0.25, 0, 1) = -0.6744. Then to calculate the raw score at the 25th percentile I plugged the z-score -0.6744 into the raw score formula we solved earlier and got raw score= -0.6744 (65.984512) + 553.62369 which gave us a raw data value of 509 rounded to the nearest integer. The z-score and raw data value at 75th percentile of the

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    level one students up into two different groups. Group 1 consists of student 1, student 6, student 15, student 20, and student 23 while group 2 consists of student 9, student 17, student 22, and student 25. All of group 1 students scored a ninety percentile or higher in reading comprehension (RC) so I put these students together so I can provide them with more challenging strategies and higher-level skilled work in order to help them continue to grow academically. Some of the strategies I would use

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    gain. The purpose of this study was to examine the "relationships between mood disorders and weight in children" (Rofey et al., 2009 p.524). The main hypothesis of the researcher was that depression and anxiety have a close relationship with BMI percentiles in a "non-obese sample" (Rofey et al., 2009 p. 523). The sample of this study consisted of 285 children. The children were previously used in another longitudinal study that examined the psychobiological underpinnings of depression. The children

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    Reflective Essay #3 ESTP My personality archetype, according to the Jung Typology test is an ESTP. As an extravert I was ranked in the 84 percentile, sensing 28 percentile, thinking 53 percentile, and perceiving at only 3 percentile. I seem to have no preference of perceiving over judging. Due to the low percentile of perceiving over judging, more than one personality type could apply; I have the tendency to swing between ESTP and ESTJ. Approximately 4.3 percent of the population falls into

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    Test Description The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V) is an individually administered intelligence test for children ages 6-16 that provides a measure of a child’s overall cognitive ability and patterns of cognitive strengths and weaknesses. The WISC-V comprises is comprised of five fundamental indexes: Visual Spatial, Verbal Comprehension, Working Memory, Processing Speed, and Fluid Reasoning. These are five index scores are combined in order to obtain the Full Scale

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