How the Scales for the GRE revised General Test Were Defined GRE
- Author(s):
- Golub-Smith, Marna L.; Moses, Tim P.
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Source:
- Wendler, Cathy; Bridgeman, Brent (eds.) with assistance from Chelsea Ezzo. The Research Foundation for the GRE revised General Test: A Compendium of Studies. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 2014, p2.2.1-2.2.9
- Document Type:
- Chapter
- Page Count:
- 9
- Subject/Key Words:
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Revised GRE, Test Revision, Score Scale, Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Field Trials, Gender Differences, Ethnic Differences, College Majors
Abstract
Presents the process by which the new score scales for the Verbal and Quantitative measures were defined. The chapter outlines the challenges that were faced, such as using actual test takers instead of participants in a field trial to create the new scales, resolving demographic shifts related to the growing population of test takers from outside of the United States, and aligning the Verbal and Quantitative scales. It describes the goals of the rescaling, the scaling procedures that were used, and how well the resulting scales met the goals of the rescaling. While this chapter covers several fairly technical methods, it is still written to be informative to those with a nontechnical background.