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Breyer, F. Jay; Rupp, André A.; Bridgeman, Brent – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
In this research report, we present an empirical argument for the use of a contributory scoring approach for the 2-essay writing assessment of the analytical writing section of the "GRE"® test in which human and machine scores are combined for score creation at the task and section levels. The approach was designed to replace a currently…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Scoring, Essay Tests, Writing Evaluation
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von der Embse, Nathaniel P.; Scott, Emma-Catherine; Kilgus, Stephen P. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
Multitiered frameworks of service delivery have traditionally underserved students with mental health needs. Whereas research has supported the assessment and intervention of social and academic behavior across tiers, evidence is limited with regard to mental health concerns including internalizing behaviors (e.g., anxiety and depression). In…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Evaluation Methods
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Wao, Hesborn O. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
Secondary data on 1,028 graduate students nested within 24 programs and admitted into either a Ph. D. or Ed. D. program between 1990 and 2006 at an American public university were used to illustrate the benefits of employing multilevel discrete-time hazard analysis in understanding the timing of doctorate completion in Education and the factors…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Grade Point Average, Doctoral Programs, Gender Differences
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Ramineni, Chaitanya; Trapani, Catherine S.; Williamson, David M.; Davey, Tim; Bridgeman, Brent – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
Automated scoring models for the "e-rater"® scoring engine were built and evaluated for the "GRE"® argument and issue-writing tasks. Prompt-specific, generic, and generic with prompt-specific intercept scoring models were built and evaluation statistics such as weighted kappas, Pearson correlations, standardized difference in…
Descriptors: Scoring, Test Scoring Machines, Automation, Models
Emmerich, Walter; And Others – 1991
The aim of this research was to identify, develop, and evaluate empirically new reasoning item types that might be used to broaden the analytical measure of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test and to strengthen its construct validity. Six item types were selected for empirical evaluation, including the two currently used in the GRE…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Sex Differences
Schaeffer, Gary A.; Kingston, Neal M. – 1988
This study examined the factor structure of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test to appraise the extent to which an analytical factor could be identified that was distinguishable from verbal and quantitative factors. Full-information factor analysis was employed in several groups of undergraduate majors on items from one edition of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Factor Structure
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Stricker, Lawrence J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
The stability was evaluated of a partial correlation index, comparisons of item characteristic curves, and comparisions of item difficulties in assessing race and sex differences in the performance of verbal items on the Graduate Record Examination Aptitude Test. All three indexes exhibited consistency in identifying the same items in different…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Carlson, Sybil B.; And Others – 1985
Four writing samples were obtained from 638 foreign college applicants who represented three major foreign language groups (Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish), and from 60 native English speakers. All four were scored holistically, two were also scored for sentence-level and discourse-level skills, and some were scored by the Writer's Workbench…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Software