What efforts has the GRE Program made to ensure fairness for all examinees, including groups that are underrepresented in graduate school?
The GRE Program has long placed great importance on the issue of fairness. We’ve taken significant measures to ensure the test upholds the highest standards for fairness by incorporating reviews and checkpoints throughout the development process: In the early concept phase, a variety of test question types were pilot-tested and any question types that tended to produce group differences in performance were eliminated from the test plan. During the development phase and continuing today, test questions are further scrutinized by specially trained fairness reviewers to ensure they meet rigorous standards. After questions are pretested, each question is included in a statistical analysis to determine if there are any unfair group differences in the performance of individual test questions; if so, it’s removed from the pool. Once questions pass this level of rigor, they are included in the test. Even then, statistical analyses will be repeated regularly to further ensure fairness.
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