2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 24, 1995
ETS revamps tests,
By Christina Rieske
Daily Staff Reporter
Throw away the scantron sheets and
the number two pencils - the Educa-
tional Testing Services announced that
the Graduate Record Exam will soon be
computerized.
The June 1996 exam has been can-
celed as part of ETS' gradual plan to
switch the GRE from the traditional for-
mat to the Computer-Adaptive Test.
ETS predicts that the transition will be
completed by 1999.
The paper and pencil GRE was also
cancelled last February.
Testing preparation companies, such
as The Princeton Review and Stanley
Kaplan, question the fairness of the com-
puterized GRE.
"It seems to be the wave of the fu-
ture, if it is done so that it secures the se-
curity and validity of the test," said Andy
Rosen, executive vice president of
Stanley Kaplan. "Because if the tests are
computerizes graduate exam
not secured, then they are not useful tools screen that goes along with the test. dents a choice of when to take the exam.
to compare students to each other." There are two boxes with people signing "The change-over is pretty relevan
Companies are also worried that the the question, one in exact word order and across the board-almost everyone plan.
new format may discriminate against the other in American Sign Language." ning on grad school will be affected,"saic
students with disabilities or students who Computerization is no longer just a Michael Reilly, director of graduate pro-
feel uncomfortable on the computer. trend, and the GRE will be the first of grams at The Princeton Review.
ETS spokesman Kevin Gonzales said many tests to find a new home on the The Princeton Review objects to thi
computer technology allows the testing computer screen, Rosen said. four hours spent focusing on a computer
program to help those with disabilities. ETS introduced the computerized But Rosen, from Kaplan, admits that stu
"We see this type of technology as an GRE in 1991 and revised the format two dents regularly stare at a computer scre
enabler so we can test more people with years later. ETS has been increasing the for that amount of time.
disabilities more fairly. We are able to pool of questions in response to the secu- "The reality is, nowadays. that st6-
use devices such as larger print," rity questions first exposed by Kaplan. dents spend so many hours in front of
Gonzalez said. "For deaf and hearing The computerizedGRE willaIsobe ad- their computer screen they don't ever
impaired people we have a video on ministered several times a week.giving stu- notice they are doing it," Rosen said.
P URCHASE bestfortheir botomline:'-said Ann Ar- SHIAPIRO
bor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon.
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about 11 years of no lease payments,
Harrison said.
The University also plans to spend
about $2.8 million to buy a lot ne- the ex-
isting buildings for additional facilities.
"Through this purchase, the Medical
Center is helping to meet the needs of Ann
Arbor-area residents," said University Di-
rector of Community Relations Jim
Kosteva. "It is not only opening up ac-
cess, but it is going a small way toward
affordability as well."
According to Harrison's letter, the
transaction means an additional 20 perma-
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million in local construction employment.
City and school officials were less en-
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'Oh, they made a phone call'," Sheldon
said, referring to the University's an-
nouncettment of the impending purchase.
"What's interesting is that my husband got
the letter the same time I did."
School administrators said they were
not contacted about the sale.
"I imagine that if we had been asked,
we wouldn't have let it pass from the tax
rolls to off the tax rolls," said Executive
Director of Auxiliary Services Robert
Mosely. "You're never happy to lose tax
revenue."
But Assistant Superintendent for Fi-
nance William Wade said the state will
insulate the schools from the full impact
of the purchase.
The schools will lose about $17,000
directly in tax revenue per year, but the
state will shoulder the nearly $90,000 in
annual education revenue lost to the pur-
chase, Wade said.
University Regent Rebecca
McGowan (D-Ann Arbor)questioned the
short notice the University gave the city.
"There is a process we should be fol-
lowing in notifying the city," she said.
"Future acquisitions should be made in a
timely and appropriate manner.:
Kosteva defended the process. "This
is a step - hopefully from the city's
standpoint, at least one step in the right
direction,' he said.
University President James
Duderstadt opened the dedication.
"It's appropriate that we dedicate this
facility, which is the heart of intellectual
activity on campus, to two people who
have done so much to further intellectual
life here," Duderstadt told the crowd.
A series of speakers including Univer-
sity Regent Nellie Varner (D-Detroit) and
University Libraiy Dean Donald Riggs ex-
pressed relief and pride that the renovation
was complete.
Vivian Shapiro expressed her gran
tude to the University. "Our life in Ann
Arbor and our time in Ann Arbor was a
gift in itself. But having the library dedi-
cated to us is almost more than I can
comprehend."
Harold Shapiro began by acknowl-
edging faculty, regents, administrators
and students for honoring his family.
"If thereis one thought that has come
out of here today, it is that of the modern
libraty. Libraries are changing but will SO
be important to faculty and students who
want to both touch the past and create the
future," he said.
Varner noted that her duties as a re-
gent coincided with Shapiro's tenure. "It
was not an easy eight years. It was a pe-
riod in which we had deep budget cuts,
mandated by the state and internal."
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