Psychology A-Level
Spread of scores
What Spread of scores means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Spread of scores
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How variable a condition was, commented on by estimating the range, where a small range means scores cluster close together.
Topics that use Spread of scores
- Arithmetic and numerical computation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- behavioural categories and tallies
- decimal conversion
- Estimating results
- percentage calculation
- pie chart construction
- range
- ratio and fraction forms
- raw frequency data
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