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Biased GRE test limits women applicants.
Standardized tests are supposed to give admissions committees an objective measure to evaluate applicants from varying academic environments.
Used with the intention of leveling the playing field and assuring fairness in the admissions process, they have come under attack for failure to predict success among many groups of test takers.
Critics claim that many assessment tests are biased against women and minorities. In 2002, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) admitted that its own Graduate Record Examination (GRE) underestimates academic success for women, especially those over the age of 24.
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As part of her graduate work in higher education administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Jane Souza conducted a study correlating required GRE scores and the exit GPA for a group of candidates in a Masters of Education reading program at Bridgewater State College MA.
Souza, assistant dean of graduate and continuing education there, presented her results at the 18th annual Women in Educational Leadership conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in September.
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