| Researcher/year | what it is |
| | A score report was defined as a form of communication, with a sender, message, medium, intent, and audience. The message of a score report is ultimately interconnected to the other report aspects of sender, medium, intent, and audience, and is a culmination of decisions about what intended users of test scores need to know and how it can be presented to them in user-friendly ways. |
| | A score report is a page containing a test score printed on it for a test taker, along with basic administration data such as test date, examinee name and contact information, and perhaps a performance-level classification such as pass-fail, or a description of a psychological state into which a respondent has been classified. |
| | A score report is the bridge between the information captured by the test and the decisions or actions of the information-users. |
| | A score report has most commonly been a physical piece of paper sent home with children or mailed to examinees’ addresses from a testing agency. As a general rule, such reports are conceptualized as stand-alone and complete, so the narrative structure of the document’s contents has had to reflect that orientation. |
| | Score reports have the purpose of communicating data, through tables, graphs and words to achieve a purpose, typically helping to turn data into actionable information for the intended audience. |