race norming

American  

Or race-norming

noun

1. the process of statistically adjusting a person's test score based on the performances of others in the same racial or ethnic group.

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Etymology

Origin of race norming

First recorded in 1991

Example Sentences

But why was race norming used in the first place?

From Washington Times

Dr. Katherine Possin, an associate professor at the University of California San Francisco who specializes in neuropsychology, said when neuropsychologists administer a cognitive test for dementia, race norming causes the formula that determines whether that person is impaired to be adjusted for a person’s race.

From Washington Times

According to The Associated Press, the use of race norming in dementia testing was developed by neurologists in the 1990s as a way to factor in a patient’s socioeconomic background.

From Washington Times

“The NFL should be really enraged about the race norming. …. That should be unacceptable to them and all of their sponsors,” Roxanne “Roxy” Gordon of San Diego, the wife of an impaired former player, said earlier this week.

From Washington Times

I think about race norming as this closed loop of information, where it’s both documenting a reality, but then there’s this question of whether by documenting the reality, you are then creating a reality because you’ve given this score, which now is going to affect how you treat the patient.

From Slate