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Direct linkJohnson-Motoyama, Michelle; Petr, Christopher G.; Mitchell, Felicia M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
Although admission criteria such as GRE scores and undergraduate GPAs (UGPAs) have been shown to moderately predict success in graduate school for students in other academic disciplines and in MSW programs, no published research has examined factors associated with success in social work PhD programs. This article reports the findings of a pilot…
Descriptors: Social Work, Success, Performance Factors, Achievement Need
Download full textCarlson, Sybil B.; Ward, William C. – 1988
Issues concerning the cost and feasibility of using Formulating Hypotheses (FH) test item types for the Graduate Record Examinations have slowed research into their use. This project focused on two major issues that need to be addressed in considering FH items for operational use: the costs of scoring and the assignment of scores along a range of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Costs, Pilot Projects
Martinez, Michael E.; Jenkins, Jeffrey B. – 1993
The purpose of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) figural-response project was to design a prototype computer assessment system for delivering and scoring figural-response items in the domain of cell and molecular biology and to begin to investigate properties of the item format. This report describes progress to date in an effort that is…
Descriptors: College Students, Cytology, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Pearlman, Mari; And Others – 1993
This project explored the possible applications of new technology to standardized testing. Because the multimedia approach is particularly promising for music, the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) music test was chosen as the context for this project. The basic system for administering the test and recording the results was written using…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Higher Education
Bennett, Randy Elliot; And Others – 1995
Two computer-based categorization tasks were developed and pilot tested. In study 1, the task asked examinees to sort mathematical word problem stems according to prototypes. Results with 9 faculty members and 107 undergraduates showed that those who sorted well tended to have higher Graduate Record Examination General Test scores and college…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Classification, College Entrance Examinations, College Faculty
Parshall, Cynthia G.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D. – 1993
This paper studies whether examinee characteristics are systematically related to mode effect across paper and computer versions of the same instrument, using data from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) of the Educational Testing Service in its Computer-Based Testing Pilot Study of 1991. The following characteristics of 1,114 examinees were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Testing
