21. Reference groups provide the benchmarks and contrast needed for comparison and evaluation of group and personal characteristics.22. Demographic Reference Groups , or DRGs, are groups of districts with similarities in student and family background characteristics. 23. However, the things you said about reference groups intrigued me and I will have to take a look. 24. A reference group is a social group that serves as a point of reference in making evaluations and decisions. 25. It is a runaway and wildly corrupt system in which executives have come to form their own reference group , 26. A serious limitation of norm-reference tests is that the reference group may not represent the current population of interest. 27. The table's footnotes will be grouped in a reference group named " nb " and displayed immediately after the table. 28. Abdel-Halim was a member of John Howard's Muslim Community Reference Group to advise the government on issues pertaining to Muslims. 29. Since the addition of reference groups , this error should no longer be invoked the message } } will be displayed. 30. In many consumer researches, reference group is a key concept for demonstrating the congruency between group membership and brand usage.