Question

8. Discuss two (2) ways in which social workers can use z-scores in social work practice.

Answer 1

The two (2) ways in which social workers can use z-scores in social work practice are :

1. The use of z scores is to gain a better perspective on the meaning of a raw score by determining its percentile, there are occasions when social work practitioners and researchers use them to derive a raw score from a percentile as well.

2. By using z scores, we can even compare two scores drawn from two different data sets with different means and/or different standard deviations.