Re: Assessment; evaluation of GRE scores

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Hi all-
        Jim Peters asks:
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Jim Peters wrote:
> Where do they get these questions?  They are not published and distributed
> by ETS.  They must be collected for previous test takers memory and
> compiled.  Brian if I misled you as to my concern, I am sorry.  I would like
> to know how my students and US students are doing, but it seems that unfair
> test practices by some partially obscure this information.  If I am wrong
> and something else is going on I would like to know.
>
> Jim

        I know that at least for AP exams, the ETS makes certain years'
exams available.  I have used past years' exams as final exams for my own
introductory college physics courses because I can compare my  students'
grades with national performance data.


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