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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
by JAMISON DORAN
News Reporter
Students who were expecting the Graduate Record Examinations, or GRE, to change this coming September do not have to worry because, as of now, the changes have been cancelled.
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is important for students and faculty to understand that the GRE was
not cancelled; Appalachian is still hosting the version that its has
now, Susan B. Morgan, Appalachian’s director of testing, said.
Plans had been underway to revamp the GRE in order to improve the test as well as to make it more user friendly.
David Payne, executive director of the GRE program at the nationwide
Educational Testing Service (ETS), said in a press release this
decision serves the best interests of “test takers and the graduate
institutions that use those scores to make admissions decisions.”
Payne and ETS worried the new test would not be able to reach enough people.
The revised version of the GRE was going to be made available on 3,200
Internet databases, however, complete access to students was not able
to be guaranteed.
Graduate schools stated while they would eventually like to see
improvements made to the GRE, they are currently satisfied with the
test and do not mind seeing a gradual change in the content and how the
test is administered.
ETS will entirely rework the GRE in the future and hand it over to a
new testing network to increase accessibility via the Internet.
ETS and others in charge of the GRE want to make sure it remains to be
relatively student friendly and easily accessed, Morgan said.
Ashley M. Holland, a senior management major, said while she did not
have any major complaints about the GRE, she did see some things that
could be improved.
“While there was a lot of preparation before the test and a tutorial,
there were several components that were a little confusing,” she said.
Through all of this, the testing center remains dedicated in providing the GRE on a daily basis, Morgan said.
“We have been administering the computer-based GRE here on campus since September of 1998 and will continue to do so,” she said.
Testing services offers the GRE and other computer-based tests to members of the campus community and of the community at large.
Testing appointments can be made by calling the testing center at 262-6801.
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