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misscore

misscore verb: to assign the wrong score to.

Verb

misscore (third-person singular simple present misscores, present participle misscoring, simple past and past participle misscored)

  1. To assign the wrong score to.
    • Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure, tended to misscore as stage 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content.1994, Bill Puka, Moral Development: New research in moral development, page 11
    • What follows from this is the second part of Gilligan's claim that Kohlberg's justice-centered moral development theory forces an irrelevant system upon women, and therefore, measures of his theory misscore women.1998, Hungsoo Khang, A Market Segmentation Exploration of Political Mobilization Under an Authoritarian System, page 430

Examples of misscore in a sentence

  • They occasionally misscore protocols, leave out important pieces of data, misconstrue things that are said to them, and make a host of other errors.2006, Eric G. Mart, Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice, page 33:
  • Language wasn't Michi's only problem, though, and she also managed to misscore papers our team had scored as a group and papers that matched exactly the examples given on the rubric.2011, Todd Farley, Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry, page 210:

Forms of misscore

third-person singular presentmisscores
present participlemisscoring
past participlemisscored
pastmisscored

Origin of misscore

From mis- + score.

Questions about misscore

What does misscore mean?
Misscore means to assign the wrong score to.
How do you use misscore in a sentence?
They occasionally misscore protocols, leave out important pieces of data, misconstrue things that are said to them, and make a host of other errors.
What part of speech is misscore?
Misscore is a verb.
What is the past tense of misscore?
The past tense of misscore is misscored.

Words near misscore in the dictionary

  1. misschooled
  2. misschooling
  3. misschools
  4. missclassification
  5. missclassified
  6. misscore
  7. misscored
  8. misscores
  9. misscoring
  10. misscreen
  11. misscreened

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