The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 14, 1995 -7
Students can take GRE on
paper until 1999, ETS says
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By Patience Atkin
Daily Staff Reporter
Although Educational Testing Ser-
vices originally planned to completely
computerize the Graduate Record Ex-
aminations by 1997, ETS will con-
tinue to offer paper-and-pencil exams
until 1999, following allegations that
the new version is susceptible to cheat-
ing.
The GRE is the entrance examina-
tion taken by most liberal arts stu-
dents applying to graduate school.
Over the past three years, 1,191,656
students have taken the exam.
"The main benefit (to the comput-
erized test) is immediate scoring,"
said ETS spokesman Ray Nicosia.
"There's been through-the-roof satis-
faction with how happy the students
are that instead of waiting the four or
six weeks that they normally have to
wait, they get their scores on the spot."
While ETS would not comment
on reasons for the delay, a national
test preparation centerhas complained
that the computerized test is easier
and has fewer safeguards to prevent
cheating.
"The first question astudentis asked
is a medium-difficulty question," said
Ann Mecca, spokeswoman for Kaplan
Education Centers, a test-preparation
firm. "If the student gets that question
right, they get a harder question. If they
get the question wrong, they get an
easier question. The test adapts to the
individual student."
Nicosia said the additional ben-
efits of computer testing include a
shorter testing time and a smaller, pri-
vate testing area.
Although these benefits may make
the computerized GRE more desir-
able for some students, others don't,
feel comfortable with it.
"I chose to take the pencil-and-
paper version," said LSA senior Stacy
Robin Meranus. "I don't know what
the computers are like, and I don't
trust them not to screw up my scores
'COS
the main
benefit (to the
computerized test)
is immediate
scoring'."
- Ray Nicosia
ETS spokesman
any more than they could already get
screwed up."
Another benefit of the computer-
ized test could turn out to be apotential
problem. The computerized GRE is
offered every day of the week. In order
to ensure that questions are not re-
peated, there must be a large database
of questions, which Kaplan cited as a
reason some students were reporting
repeated questions on their tests.
"You could walk out of the test and
say to your friend, 'Oh, I saw this word
on the test,' and then thatperson would
go in and take the test and possibly see
the same word," Mecca said. "That's
not supposed to happen."
In the fall of 1993, Kaplan sent
20 staff members to take the GRE
repeatedly overaperiod oftwo weeks.
"Afterwords, they could reconstruct
80 percent of the GRE," Mecca said.
"This shows the questions were being
recycled."
Mecca said Kaplan went to ETS in
December 1993 and presented
itsfindings, adding that ETS was very
responsive and agreed to investigate
Kaplan's claims.
Two weeks later, ETS filed acopy-
right lawsuit against Kaplan. "What
they (Kaplan) did was what we con-
sider an illegal act," Nicosia said.
"They went in to steal questions."
Nicosia denied that any signs of
student cheating had surfaced prior to
Kaplan's report. He also said that the
percentage of the test that was dupli-
cated by Kaplan is "debatable."
"You'll see that Kaplan and other
for-profit coaching firms are in this
tooth and nail, because it (computer-
ized testing) is bad for their busi-
ness," Nicosia said. "They don't want
to see it here."
ETS's lawsuit against Kaplan is
still pending. "It's still being negoti-
ated, but we just signed an agreement
with ETS saying that we wouldn't
emulate the exams until March," Mecca
said.
Nicosia said this is not the end of
the battle between ETS and Kaplan.
"ETS is still pursuing this as if it is
going to court. We are planning on
going to court or settling for a mon-
etary (award)."
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MEDICAL CODING SPECIALIST
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LSA sophomore Katie Wang shakes the hand of a recent graduate of Project Lighthouse's college game. The
game Is designed to encourage kids to attend college.
Young Asian Amencans visit
campus to learn about college
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Project Lighthouse
encourages students
to continue education
By Spencer Dickinson
Daily Staff Reporter
A group of urban kids came to the
University on Friday as part of a pro-
gram designed to put children on the
road to college at an early age.
Project Lighthouse, sponsored by
the Office of Academic Multicul-
tural Initiatives, reaches out spe-
cifically to young Asian Americans
in the Detroit area and encourages
them to keep their sights set on a
college education.
Ann Liao, an LSA senior who
helped run the program, said, "These
kids are thinking about getting married
early or joining a gang. Their families
just don't place a value on higher edu-
cation."
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the "model minority myth," or the be-
lief that all Asian Americans are well-
off, well-educated or upper-class, she
added.
"These kids aren't all 4.0 students
who just study," Liao said. "They're
real people who need our help."
The 7th- and 8th-graders from the
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"It's supposed to teach the kids
about all the different aspects of col-
lege they have no way of knowing
about," Ting said.
"I never knew you had to do so
many different kinds of things here,"
said one 7th-grader after finally find-
ing housing in a co-op.
LSA sophomore Cathy Hong, astu-
dent volunteer who participated, said,
"I think it has some effect, but I'd like
to see more programs like this."
The current program is an expan-
sion of the Project Lighthouse the Uni-
versity has presented for the past three
years.
This year, the kids will visit Ann
Arbor twice, and University students
will accompany program directors to
the children's school.
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