misscore

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ score

Verb

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

1. To assign the wrong score to.
   • 1994, Bill Puka, Moral Development: New research in moral development, page 11:

     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.

   • 1998, Hungsoo Khang, A Market Segmentation Exploration of Political Mobilization Under an Authoritarian System, page 430:

     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.

   • 2003, Edmund H. Conrow, Effective Risk Management: Some Keys to Success, page 253:

     When developing an ordinal or estimative probability table, do not include words such as low, medium, high, etc. as part of the table as this may at best confuse the reader and at worst cause the reader to misscore the probability level because of cognitive dissonance.

   • 2006, Eric G. Mart, Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice, page 33:

     They occasionally misscore protocols, leave out important pieces of data, misconstrue things that are said to them, and make a host of other errors.

   • 2011, Todd Farley, Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry, page 210:

     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. Michi basically misscored a considerable number of the responses that showed up on the computer screen in front of her, but Heidi and I decided to ignore that fact because Michi was such a joy to be around.