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...similar "equating" error in the November GMATs had only a mild effect on the business school admissions process for the fall of 1980. In late November, ETS notified business schools of the error--a miscalculation of about ten points on an 800 scale--and by January had sent corrected scores to the test-takers as well as the schools. Amy Meyer, associate director of admissions to Harvard Business School's masters program, says that because the error was so small, and because the Business School received prompt notification about it, the effect on admissions was minimal. "There was a group...
...administers the MCAT, wrote to medical schools in May to inform them that ACT had made an "equating error" in scoring the April MCATs, and that approximately 90 per cent of the students tested received scores that were slightly low. Apparently, ACT's error will not affect the admissions process. According to Charles Sentress, coordinator of public affairs for ACT, medical schools should receive corrected test scores some time this week. Since most students who took the April MCATs are applying for admission to the class that matriculates in 1979, at the earliest, medical schools should have ample time...
James W. Zirkle, associate dean of admissions at Yale School of Law, says his office received notice of the error "early enough to go back and reevaluate people with abnormally high scores." Other law schools--particularly those that use a "rolling admissions" process--were more affected by the skewing. Many of these institutions, including Harvard Law School, did not reevaluate applicants who had been admitted before the schools discovered that the scores were skewed. Patricia Lydon, dean of admissions at the Law School, says the reason her office did not re-examine early admittees was that in general "the ones...
...which ACT introduced major changes into the MCATs two years ago provides an interesting comparison with ETS's methodology. Five years before the change, ACT began testing experimental questions in preparation. "This was a long, gradual process, and the med schools knew about it from the start," Sentress, of ACT, said...
...pose an even more direct threat to the standardized testing establishment. He is currently rewriting a bill he introduced in the House last year seeking to limit the use and power of standardized tests. "The basic aim of this bill is to see a less mechanized, less fallible process," James Castello, Harrington's legislative assistant, says. "What you can read from someone filling in little IBM bubbles for three hours does not amount to much," he adds...