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...strength of ETS may be enough to pressure the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into refusing to release a report that shows coaching improves standardized test scores, testing experts agreed yesterday...
...FTC report is released it would largely destroy that claim, causing ETS problems with students who have followed the company's instructions and scored low and with colleges who have believed that the tests were actually measuring innate ability and not achievement of applicants...
...would mean ETS has been wrong all there years," John Weiss, the director of Project DETEST, an anti-testing group, said yesterday. That prospect might be enough to make ETS lean on the FTC in an attempt to stifle the report, Steve Solomon, a testing expert with the New York Public Interest Research Group said yesterday...
...FTC lawyers went after the cram schools. Since they have no case there, the powers that be at the FTC might just decide not to publish the report at all," Weiss said...
...FTC has also been looking at test preparation industries and its claims. Although no report has officially been released yet, observers expect that the FTC report will back up Stanley H.Kaplan's claim that "there is a difference...