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Rock, Donald; Werts, Charles – 1980
The purpose of this study was to obtain information on both the number of individuals who retest and their patterns of score gain (or decrement) by sex and ability. Individuals who retested only once were found to gain about 26-27 points on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) verbal test and about 23 points on the GRE quantitative test. This…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Gains, College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education
Kingston, Neal; Turner, Nancy – 1984
This investigation examines the impact the l98l Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test Format Revision had on the stability over time of the verbal, quantitative, and analytical scores. Scores were used from the self-selected group of repeaters who took the GRE General Test twice between October 1980 and June 1982. Examinees were divided…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Multiple Regression Analysis
Download full textDuran, Richard P.; And Others – 1987
Information about how Graduate Record Examination (GRE) examinees solve verbal analogy problems was obtained in this study through protocol analysis. High- and low-ability subjects who had recently taken the GRE General Test were asked to "think aloud" as they worked through eight analogy items. These items varied factorially on the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Cognitive Ability, College Entrance Examinations
