misscore

Definitions

To assign the wrong score to.

Examples

“Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure⟳, tended to misscore as stage⟳ 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content.”

“What follows from this is the second part of Gilligan's claim⟳ that Kohlberg's justice-centered moral development theory forces an irrelevant system upon women, and therefore, measures of his theory misscore women.”

“When developing an ordinal or estimative probability table, do not include⟳ words such as low, medium, high, etc. as part of the table as this may at best confuse⟳ the reader and at worst cause the reader to misscore the probability level because of cognitive dissonance.”

“They occasionally misscore protocols, leave⟳ out important pieces of data, misconstrue things that are said to them, and make⟳ a host⟳ of other errors.”

“Language wasn't Michi's only problem, though, and she also managed to misscore papers our team had scored as a group and papers that matched exactly the examples given on the rubric. Michi basically misscored a considerable number⟳ of the responses that showed up on the computer screen in front of her, but Heidi and I decided to ignore⟳ that fact because Michi was such a joy to be around.”

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