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[shvetsov2005]

I am going through a test. Question:

What is the task accomplishment level at the norming stage?

1. Low to Moderate

2. Disruptive

3.Increasing

4. Optimal

Tell me what would you choose and why? What's a norming stage?
Alexander.

[pugachevV]

Lousy English is what it is. I don't know of any verb "to norm". Therefore the question is incomprehensible.

[lotus]

Hi,

I'm learning something too.

"Norming" means to adjust test scores to compensate for ethnic and cultural differences.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861683799

I'm not sure how the definition relates to the question, though. It sounds like it's a technical process.

In mathematics, it would be called "normalizing."




--lotus
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[ESL-ish]

It's business slang related to stages of team development. Without the text the student is being asked about it's really impossible to say what the correct answer is.
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[lotus]

Thank you, ESL-ish!

It appears to be the "settling" stage of team development.
http://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm

The brain-"storming" stage is pretty common in business meetings.

The order would then be:

1. forming
2. storming
3. norming
4. performing

And the levels of task accomplishment would then be:

1. Disruptive
2. Increasing
3. Low to Moderate
4. Optimal


--lotus
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War does not make one great --Yoda

[shvetsov2005]

What would I do without you.

How on earth I should know that there is that business model out there? That's a rhetorical question though.

Alexander.