Version 1.1 StanScore is a simple but useful utility program that converts one or more sets of raw test scores into normalized-standardized z, stens, stanines, and T-scores. The program accepts data in several convenient formats such as from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Access database tables, and standard comma-separated free text files. This means that data contained in such statistical packages as SPSS, STATISTICA, SYSTAT etc. can be easily exported into say an Excel file, then read straight into Stanscore "as is" for processing. Missing Data are recognized for each variable separately by the program - recognizing a -9999 code, a null field (two commas together in a comma-separated "csv" or "txt" file), or the usual blank entries in SPSS, STATISTICA, Excel, or ACCESS. StanScore currently calculates 4 standardised scores in an on-screen, scrollable, detailed score distribution table (which can be can saved as an Excel spreadsheet).It also provides summary Raw-Score to stanine and Raw Score to sten look-up tables that are displayed on-screen, can be printed in tabular form, and can be saved to an Excel file for other uses or re-formatting for presentation-documentation purposes. The program accepts anywhere from 1 to 50 scale or test score variables. This means that using the "Print-All" facility, raw-score conversion lookup tables can be printed for up to 50 variables as one command. Version 1.1. now lets the user print the detailed score distribution histogram, and now "remembers" the last subdirectory in which a file was opened so that the file-open dialog is now "last-used directory-sensitive".

For users who have not installed STANSCORE before, download the zipped installation archive here (~6Mb). Unzip the program using say WINZIP or the default routine built into Windows 2000 and above., and run the SETUP.EXE file from within the file-list (which will use a temporary directory to unzip everything). The program will default to installation subdirectory c:\stanscore, and an icon will be created on your desktop. An online help file is available from a help button in the program, and a formatted 17-page Word program manual is also available to you in the installation directory.