A stanine is a score from 1 to 9 with a. stanine of 9 indicating a very high level of general ability relative to the whole norm reference group, and. a stanine of 1 indicating a very low relative achievement.

What is the highest stanine score?

Stanine Scores The namestanine comes from “standard nine.” There are only 9 possible staninescores, whole numbers from 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest).

What are stanine scores used for?

Stanine scores are used in education to compare student performance over a normal distribution. Stanine scores convert raw test scores to a one-digit whole number to simplify test interpretation.