age norm
- noun
- /eɪdʒ nɔrm/
- Specialized
:
norma de edad
- Teachers often assess student performance against the age norm to identify potential learning difficulties.
- college-age norms
Examples
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Researchers solicited two groups of children to participate in the study: (1) avid readers and (2) struggling readers with skills below their age norm.
Academic text (2014) -
Each intelligence test produces an IQ and part scores reported as standardized scores (M = 100, SD = 15) based on age norms.
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Losing tennis players demonstrated higher scores on anger when compared to both college-age norms and winning tennis players.
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Winning and losing tennis players showed considerably lower scores on fatigue when compared to college-age norms.
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In many respects, the age results for the blind infants were parallel to the age norms for sighted infants.
Academic text (1996) -
He has seriously violated the expected age norms for emergent writing and for writing mastery.
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Finally, in Gray (2004), 70% of the children with SLI and 5% of the TD children learned fewer words than age norms.
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The study indicated that many children are not meeting the expected milestones according to their age norm.
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In her research, she compared the developmental delays of the children to the established age norms in the field.
Synonyms
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A usual way people in a group behave
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the typical/average age for something' is directly derivable from combining 'age' (a person's year) with 'norm' (a typical or standard value). This is a straightforward noun–noun composition where the first noun specifies the dimension of the norm, and similar constructions exist across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Age norm comes from the image of a mark on a child's development chart that shows the usual age for a skill, where age means years and norm means the expected line. So an age norm tells us the 'average' or 'expected' age when most children show a certain ability.