Norm-Referenced Assessment: A test or other type of assessment designed to provide a measure of performance that is interpretable in terms of an individual's relative standing in some known group. Criterion-Referenced Assessment: A test or other type of assessment designed to provide a measure of performance that is interpretable in terms of a clearly defined and delimited domain of learning tasks.
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This article has been copublished in the August 2007 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (Med Sci Sports Exer. 2007;39:1423â1434). Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org) and the American Heart.