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Download full textKlieger, David M.; Adler, Rachel; Ezzo, Chelsea – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
Now is an opportune time to consider new ways to ask registrants for the "GRE"® General Test about their race and ethnicity. Growth in the percentage of Americans who identify as multiracial suggests the possibility that a sizeable percentage of registrants would self-report more than one race or ethnicity if given the opportunity to do…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Race, Ethnicity
Crawford, Bryce, Jr. – 1972
The GRE Board established the Research Program to investigate ways to improve the GRE and its overall operation. Approximately 30 projects have been undertaken and funded by the GRE Board; perhaps a third of these have been completed. These projects can be divided into three groups: (1) those dealing with product or process or marketing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Performance Factors, Research Projects
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1973
The three papers provided here were presented at the GRE Board Research Seminar: (1) "Background, Purpose, and Scope of the GRE Board Research Program" by Bryce Crawford, Jr.; (2) "Predicting Success in Graduate Education" by Warren W. Willingham; and (3) "Research on Testing and the Minority Student" by Ronald L.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Conference Reports, Graduate Study
Wild, Cheryl; Durso, Robin – 1979
This study investigates the effects of increasing the test time to reduce the speededness of the verbal and quantitative experimental sections of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test. In December 1976, at approximately 550 domestic test centers, 20- and 30-minute versions of a verbal experimental test and of a quantitative…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Quantitative Tests, Racial Bias
Gu, Lixiong; Drake, Samuel; Wolfe, Edward W. – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2006
This study seeks to determine whether item features are related to observed differences in item difficulty (DIF) between computer- and paper-based test delivery media. Examinees responded to 60 quantitative items similar to those found on the GRE general test in either a computer-based or paper-based medium. Thirty-eight percent of the items were…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Items, Educational Testing, Student Evaluation
Scheuneman, Janice – 1985
A number of hypotheses were tested concerning elements of Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) items that might affect the performance of blacks and whites differently. These elements were characteristics common to several items that otherwise measured different concepts. Seven general hypotheses were tested in the form of sixteen specific…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Breland, Hunter M.; Bridgeman, Brent; Fowles, Mary E. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1999
A comprehensive review was conducted of writing research literature and writing test program activities in a number of testing programs. The review was limited to writing assessments used for admission in higher education. Programs reviewed included ACT, Inc.'s ACT™ program, the California State Universities and Colleges (CSUC) testing program,…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Tests, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
