Sub Heading: "I haven't had a cup of coffee yet this morning so this may be completely goofy but . . ."
Karl- Possibly. But virtually every strong PhD level candidate that we've had here at ACI over the last 15 years has scored higher on quant than on the verbal when taking the GRE (I did go back and check- it's over 95%! All four of the faculty as well- maybe it is US that's weird.). It is, of course, a small and likely odd sample (as every small sample is possibly when considered alone). I'm almost wondering if there hasn't been a change in the population of those who take the test across that time. If, for example, that results had at one time predicted success (higher quant score), with a change that meant fewer and fewer of those strong-in-verbal-but-weak-in-quant-skills took it would put a ceiling on the predictability wouldn't it? (I have no idea how but it seems such a hypothesis could be tested?) Personally, I suspect it is more complex than any such simple explanation. :) FYI - We separate strong PhD from those we view to be average or more likely to succees at the Master's level and even discuss that with most of the students when they ask for letters. Some of them don't like it, and we do try to be encouraging (I'm one of those who would meet our criteria for likely to do better in a masters program and I thrived in a PhD program so we don't present this to them as more than our clinical judgment and most of our students are savy in that literature! In my case, I had a poor high school, was poorly motivated and lacked good study skills (and habits) so had a pretty C- first two years- but a really good time!). Many have come back later and thanked us for pointing them in the right direction. So far, only one has shown us to be the complete goofs we probably are! :) Tim -----Original Message----- From: Wuensch, Karl L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 1/22/2006 11:25 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: GRE Norms A colleague of mine, and former director of a testing center at which the GRE was administered, suggested that the drop in verbal GRE and rise in quantitative GRE has been due to the increasing numbers of foreign students taking the GRE. Cheers, Karl W.
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