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Download full textOliveri, Maria Elena; Lawless, Rene; Molloy, Hillary – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
The literature and the employee and workforce surveys rank collaborative problem solving (CPS) among the top 5 most critical skills necessary for success in college and the workforce. This paper provides a review of the literature on CPS and related terms, including a discussion of their definitions, importance to higher education and workforce…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Direct linkBerube, Michael – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The author, an English professor, shares his experience in retaking the Graduate Record Examination in English literature, 25 years after he entered graduate school at the University of Virginia. He took the practice test instead of the "real" test, for a number of reasons. He wanted to be able to look over the questions afterward; to…
Descriptors: English Literature, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Classics (Literature)
Gao, Rui; He, Wei; Ruan, Chunyi – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
In this study, we investigated whether preequating results agree with equating results that are based on observed operational data (postequating) for a college placement program. Specifically, we examined the degree to which item response theory (IRT) true score preequating results agreed with those from IRT true score postequating and from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Student Placement, Item Response Theory, True Scores
Walker, Gabriela – College Student Journal, 2008
A quantitative analysis of the admissions requirements guidelines of the education doctoral programs at the top 20 American universities was conducted. An Internet search was used to obtain information on top-ranked world and U.S. universities. Admission requirements typically include, at minimum, an application fee (mean 55.5 USD), previous…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Universities, Doctoral Programs, Admission Criteria
Peer reviewedThacker, Andrew J.; Williams, Robert E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Carlson, Alfred B.; And Others – 1973
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…
Descriptors: English Literature, Evaluation Criteria, Feasibility Studies, French
Emmerich, Walter – 1989
The aim of this study was to develop a procedure that could be used to appraise the cognitive features of subject (achievement) tests. Cognitive taxonomies and an accompanying coding scheme were developed and applied to the Graduate Record Examinations subject tests in Psychology and Literature in English. The taxonomies were based on the manifest…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classification, Coding, Cognitive Processes
Conrad, Linda, Ed.; And Others – 1977
This manual supplements previous guides to the use of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). It provides sufficient detailed information about the GREs to permit measurement specialists and institutional researchers, as well as faculty members and administrators, to understand the development of the tests and to evaluate their usefulness.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Content Analysis, Graduate Study
Winterbottom, John A. – ADE Bulletin, 1969
The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) program is described in this article from the standpoint of the policy-making and administrative arrangement which provide the context within which the Advanced Literature and 22 other similar tests exist. The development and dissemination of the Advanced Tests is outlined. A discussion of policy-making and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Educational Testing, English Literature
Duran, Richard P.; And Others – 1987
This study planned further research aimed at understanding how the current version of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) analytical measure reflects cognitive skills that are important to success in graduate education. Several activities were completed, including selective literature reviews of: (1) cognitive and psychometric research on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
