Sepertinya bener juga ini...... Terus terang saja saya sangat terkagum-kagum dengan nilai TOEFL dan GRE teman-teman dekat saya dari RRC, fantastis......, dan almost perfect.....! Namun, kualitas papernya, biasa-biasa saja ......
Salam, Budi > Salam, > > Setahu saya, banyak teman-teman dari RRC yang nilai TOEFL, GMAT, dlsb lebih > tinggi dibandingkan dengan kemampuannya berbahasa Ingrris sehari-hari. > > Enggak tahunya ...:) > > Salam, > > Ahmad Syamil > > > Wednesday, August 7, 2002 > > http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/08/2002080704n.htm > > ETS Says GRE Scores From China, South Korea, and Taiwan Are Suspect > > By DAVID L. WHEELER > > The Educational Testing Service has told graduate schools in the > United States that scores on the Graduate Record Examinations from students > taking the test in China, South Korea, and Taiwan may be inflated by > cheating. ETS is also taking measures to try to restore the integrity of the > scores, including suspending the use of a computer-based test in those > regions -- a change that will affect more than 55,000 students annually. > > ETS, which develops and administers the GRE, began an investigation > last year that checked test results in 40 countries. The investigation found > that scores on the verbal portion of the exam in China, South Korea, and > Taiwan were being artificially increased by the use of Web sites, where test > takers were posting questions they had memorized and, sometimes, the answers > to the questions. Toward the end of the cycle in which the same pool of > questions was used for the tests, national average scores were increasing by > as much as 100 points in China, and 50 points in South Korea and Taiwan, on > the standard range of scores from 200 to 800. ETS informed graduate deans of > the problem in a letter that was mailed on July 31. > > The score increases occurred only on the verbal portion of the test. > The GRE also has quantitative and analytical sections. ETS hypothesizes that > with the scores already high on the latter two sections, because of the high > performance of test takers in the region, it was impossible even for > cheaters to increase the average scores on those portions of the test. > > The ETS investigation indicated that cheating was not affecting scores > on the Test of English as a Foreign Language and the Graduate Management > Admission Test. > > Carol A. Beere, associate provost for graduate studies and outreach at > Northern Kentucky University and the chairwoman of the GRE board, said that > the board was torn between needing to tell graduate schools what was going > on and fearing that it would harm the reputation of students who hadn't > cheated. The board was also concerned about publicizing a cheating strategy > that others might try to use. "Our challenge is to protect the test scores > and reputation of the students who are putting their honest energy into > preparing for graduate school," she said. > > Ultimately, she said, the board felt it had no choice but to tell > graduate schools about the problems with the test, but it is also trying to > publicly acknowledge that many Asian students are achieving high scores > because of hard work, not cheating. > > Although some questionable scores were submitted to graduate schools > in last year's round of admissions, and some questionable scores may be sent > to graduate schools this year, ETS is urging universities to look at the > scores in the context of the students' other achievements, their essays, and > their letters of recommendation. > > To help prevent future cheating, ETS will stop using the > computer-based tests on September 30 and switch to using paper examinations > in which questions are only used once. In the computer-based tests, a pool > of questions is used over a period of time until the questions are > discarded. The advantage of the computer-based tests is that they can be > offered anytime a testing center is open, while the paper-and-pencil tests > require more heavily monitored administration of large groups of students. > > ETS has planned two testing dates for China, South Korea, and Taiwan: > November 23, 2002, and March 15, 2003. After that, the testing service hopes > to have devised a more secure form of computer-based testing. > > ETS regards the Web sites where students have posted GRE questions and > answers as illegal, but says that international litigation would probably > not produce the quick remedy needed. Before taking the GRE, test takers sign > an agreement saying that they will not reveal any questions from the test to > others. > > Ms. Beere said that the Web sites in China on which students have > posted questions and answers appear to be nonprofit ventures, run by > students themselves. The students appear to be motivated by the desire to > help others, but might have been able to help themselves if they took the > test twice with minimal time between tests. For test-security reasons, ETS > will not say how long the test questions are used for the computer-based > tests. > ---------------------------------------- This message was sent using CBN WebMail.
