The Graduate Record Examinations Committees for French, Philosophy, and English Literature participated in an investigation of the feasibility of conducting validity studies of the GRE using a common criterion task. It was determined that such a study was not feasible. However some committee members suggested that many graduate departments used…

The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of using item response theory (IRT) methods to equate different forms of three College Board Achievement Tests (Biology, American History and Social Studies, and Mathematics Level II) and one Graduate Record Examinations Achievement Test (Advanced Biology), rather than conventional or…