Common Sense (pamphlet) Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775â76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at ...
DSST exams are scored using one of two scoring methods: Norm-. Referenced or Criterion-Referenced Standard Setting. The use of one. or the other methodology depends on the DSST exam title and the. date the exam was taken. One method is not better than the other â.
Standard deviation (SD) of the scale scores for a group of students. The scale score SD indicates how far away scale scores are from the scale score mean. About 68 percent of the scores will be within plus or minus one standard deviation from the mean.