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The Feasibility of Rescaling Test Scores of Handicapped Examinees GRE SAT

Author(s):
Powers, Donald E.; Willingham, Warren W.
Publication Year:
1986
Report Number:
RR-86-39
Source:
ETS Research Report
Document Type:
Report
Page Count:
20
Subject/Key Words:
College Board, Graduate Record Examinations Board, Disabilities, Equated Scores, Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), Scaling, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Test Bias

Abstract

A number of testing programs offer handicapped examinees the opportunities to take admissions tests under nonstandard conditions. Typically, the test scores based on these nonstandard administrations have been flagged to indicate to test users that the scores may not be comparable to those from standard administrations. In order to avoid thus identifying handicapped applicants, a panel established by the National Academy of Sciences suggested the possibility of rescaling the scores of handicapped students to make grade predictions comparable for handicapped and nonhandicapped students. This report examines this possibility and concludes that the approach is not feasible technically and furthermore that it would also have a number of potentially serious undesirable side effects. (20pp.)

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