STANINE
- one of the nine classes into which a set of scores are divided [n STANINES]
- any of the nine classes into which a set of normalized standard scores arranged according to rank in educational testing are divided, which include the bottom 4 percent and the top 4 percent of the scores in the first and ninth classes and the middle 20 percent in the fifth, and which have a standard deviation of 2 and a mean of 5
- one of nine classes into which a set of scores is divided [n -S]