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Download full textTyler, Linda – Educational Testing Service, 2011
Since 2006, the National Education Association (NEA) and Educational Testing Service (ETS) have been working collaboratively to support teacher candidates in preparing for "The Praxis Series"[TM] of teacher licensure assessments, currently used in 41 states and territories. Their focus has been particularly targeted to assisting minority…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty), Intervention
Peer reviewedWalters, Alyssa M.; Lee, Soonmook; Trapani, Catherine – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
The study investigated the applicability of previous experimental research on stereotype threat to operational Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®) General Test testing centers. The goal was to document any relationships between features of the testing environment that might cue stereotype threat as well as any impact on GRE test scores among…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Education Service Centers, Testing Problems
Broer, Markus; Lee, Yong-Won; Rizavi, Saba; Powers, Don – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
Three polytomous DIF detection techniques--the Mantel test, logistic regression, and polySTAND--were used to identify GRE® Analytical Writing prompts ("Issue" and "Argument") that are differentially difficult for (a) female test takers; (b) African American, Asian, and Hispanic test takers; and (c) test takers whose strongest…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Cues
Centra, John A. – 1979
The degree objectives of prospective graduate students from the various ethnic groups were investigated in this study by using the extensive (200,000 plus) Graduate Record Examination (GRE) registrant population of 1976-1977. GRE scores, undergraduate grade point average, and being a male were the important predictors of students' expectations of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, American Indians, Asian Americans
