Reports in this section focus on the psychometric qualities of the GRE® General Test and Subject Tests, including scoring, scaling and equating.
Key Reports
- Effect of Extra Time on GRE Quantitative and Verbal Scores
By B. Bridgeman, F. Cline, and J. Hessinger (2003)
GRE Board Report No. 00-03P - A General Bayesian Model for Testlets: Theory and Applications
By X. Wang, E. T. Bradlow, and H. Wainer (2002)
GRE Board Report No. 98-01P - An Analysis of Similarities in Item Functioning Within Antonym and Analogy Variant Families
By D. J. Scrams, R. J. Mislevy, and K. M. Sheehan (2002)
GRE Board Report No. 95-17aP - A Procedure for Estimating the Conditional Standard Errors of Measurement for GRE General and Subject Tests
By W. R. Cowell (1991)
GRE Board Report No. 87-03P - A Study of the Long-Term Stability of GRE General Test Scores
By K. M. Wilson (1988)
GRE Board Report No. 86-18R
Additional Reports
- Potential Impact of Context Effects on the Scoring and Equating of the Multistage GRE® Revised General Test
By T. Davey & Y.-H. Lee (2011)
GRE Board Report No. 08-01 - Effects of Calculator Availability on GRE Quantitative Questions
By B. Bridgeman, F. Cline, and J. Levin (2008)
GRE Board Report No. 03-09 - Effect of Immediate Feedback and Revision on Psychometric Properties of Open-Ended GRE® Subject Test Items
By Y. Attali and D. Powers (2008)
GRE Board Report No. 04-05 - Automated Scoring of Short-Answer Open-Ended GRE® Subject Test Items
By Y. Attali, D. Powers, M. Freedman, M. Harrison, and S. Obetz (2008)
GRE Board Report No. 04-02 - Effect of Immediate Feedback and Revision on Psychometric Properties of Open-Ended Sentence-Completion Items
By Y. Attali, D. Powers, and J. Hawthorn (2008)
GRE Board Report No. 03-15 - Transfer Between Variants of Quantitative Items
By M. Morley, B. Bridgeman, and R. Lawless (2004)
GRE Board Report No. 00-06R - Development of a SIBTEST Bundle Methodology for Improving Test Equity With Applications for GRE Test Development
By W. Stout, D. Bolt, A. G. Froelich, B. Habing, S. Hartz, and L. Roussos (2003)
GRE Board Report No. 98-15P - Factors Affecting Difficulty in the Generating Examples Item Type
By I .R. Katz, A. W. Lipps, and J. G. Trafton (2002)
GRE Board Report No. 97-18P - GRE Automated-Editing-Task Phase II Report: Item Analyses, Revisions, Validity Study, and Taxonomy Development
By H. Breland, K. Kukich, and L. Hemat (2001)
GRE Board Report No. 98-05P - Psychometric Evaluation of the New GRE Writing Assessment
By G. A. Schaeffer, J. B. Briel, and M. E. Fowles (2001)
GRE Board Report No. 96-11P - An Inquiry into the Nature of the Sentence-Completion Task: Implications for Item Generation
By K. M. Sheehan and R. J. Mislevy (2001)
GRE Board Report No. 95-17bP - Variations in Mean Response Times for Questions on the Computer-Adaptive GRE General Test: Implications for Fair Assessment
By B. Bridgeman and F. Cline (2000)
GRE Board Report No. 96-20P - Items by Design: The Impact of Systematic Feature Variation on Item Statistical Characteristics
By M. K. Enright, M. Morley, and K. M. Sheehan (1999)
GRE Board Report No. 95-15R - Scoring Essays Automatically Using Surface Features
By R. M. Kaplan, S. E. Wolff, J. C. Burstein, C. Lu, D. A. Rock, and B. A. Kaplan (1998)
GRE Board Report No 94-21P - Comparability of Paper-and-Pencil and Computer Adaptive Test Scores on the GRE General Test
By G. A. Schaeffer, B. Bridgeman, M. L. Golub-Smith, C. Lewis, M. T. Potenza, and M. Steffen (1998)
GRE Board Report No. 95-08P - GRE Analytical Reasoning Item Statistics Prediction Study
By R. F. Boldt (1998)
GRE Board Report No. 94-02P - Effects of Examinee Choice on a Test of Divergent Thinking
By D. E. Powers and R. E. Bennett (1998)
GRE Board Report No. 93-20P - An Investigation of the Role of Educational Background on Performance on the GRE Analytical Measure
By M. K. Enright and I. I. Bejar (1998)
GRE Board Report No. 92-14P - Describing and Categorizing DIF in Polytomous Items
By R. J. Zwick, D. T. Thayer, and J. Mazzeo (1997)
GRE Board Report No. 93-10P - On Examinee Choice in Educational Testing
By H. Wainer and D. Thissen (1994)
GRE Board Report No. 91-17P - Item Difficulty Adjustment Study: GRE Verbal Discretes
By R. Adams, J. Carson, and K. Cureton (1993)
GRE Board Report No. 89-04P - The Prediction of GRE Reading Comprehension Item Difficulty for Expository Prose Passages for each of Three Item Types: Main Ideas, Inferences and Explicit Statements
By R. O. Freedle and I. W. Kostin (1992)
GRE Board Report No. 87-10P - Fitting New Measurement Models to GRE General Test Constructed-Response Item Data
By R. E. Bennett, M. M. Sebrechts, and K. Yamamoto (1991)
GRE Board Report No. 89-11P - Machine-Scorable Complex Constructed-Response Quantitative Items: Agreement Between Expert System and Human Raters' Scores
By M. M. Sebrechts, R. E. Bennett, and D. A. Rock (1991)
GRE Board Report No. 88-07aP - Reducing Test Form Overlap of the GRE Subject Test in Mathematics Using IRT Triple-Part Equating
By R. L. McKinley and G. A. Schaeffer (1989)
GRE Board Report No. 86-14P - Strength of the Analytical Factor of the GRE General Test in Several Subgroups: A Full-Information Factor Analysis Approach
By G. A. Schaeffer and N. M. Kingston (1988)
GRE Board Report No. 86-07P - Relationship Between Item Characteristics and an Index of Differential Item Functioning (DIF) for the Four GRE Verbal Item Types
By R. O. Freedle and I. W. Kostin (1988)
GRE Board Report No. 85-03P - Relationships of Reasoning and Writing Skills to GRE Analytical Ability Scores
By S. B. Carlson (1988)
GRE Board Report No. 84-23P - Content Characteristics of GRE Analytical Reasoning Items
By C. Chalifour and D. E. Powers (1988)
GRE Board Report No. 84-14P - Characteristics of Examinees Who Leave Questions Unanswered on the GRE General Test Under Rights-only Scoring
By J. Grandy (1987)
GRE Board Report No. 83-16P - Exploring the Use of IRT Equating for the GRE Subject Test in Mathematics
By R. L. McKinley and N. M. Kingston (1987)
GRE Board Report No. 86-08P - Construct Validity of the GRE Analytical Test: A Resource Document
By R. P. Duran, D. E. Powers and S. S. Swinton (1987)
GRE Board Report No. 81-06P - Test Preparation for the GRE Analytical Ability Measure: Differential Effects for Subgroups of GRE Test Takers
By D. E. Powers (1986)
GRE Board Report No. 82-06bP - Effects of Test Preparation on the Validity of GRE Analytical Scores
By D. E. Powers (1986)
GRE Board Report No. 82-06aP - Alternative Methods of Equating the GRE General Test
By N. M. Kingston and P. W. Holland (1986)
GRE Board Report No. 81-16P - Contribution of Verbal Item Types in the GRE General Test to Accuracy of Measurement of the Verbal Scores
By F. M. Lord and C. L. Wild (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 84-06P - An Examination of the Assumption that the Equating of Parallel Forms Is Population-Independent
By W. H. Angoff and W. R. Cowell (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 83-12P - Factor Structure of the GRE General Test for Older Examinees: Implications for Construct Validity
By L. J. Stricker and D. A. Rock (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 83-10R - Background Characteristics of Examinees Showing Unusual Test Behavior on the Graduate Record Examinations
By P. K. Oltman (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 82-08P - The Relationship of GRE General Test Item-Type Part Scores to Undergraduate Grades
By K. M. Wilson (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 81-22P - Exploration of Causes of Bias in Test Items
By J. D. Scheuneman (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 81-21P - The Impact of Self-Study on GRE Test Performance
By S. S. Swinton and D. E. Powers (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 81-10P - Use of Empirical Bayes Methods in the Study of the Validity of Academic Predictors of Graduate School Performance
By H. I. Braun and D. H. Jones (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 79-13P - Report of a Study of the Content of Three GRE Advanced Tests
By R. DeVore and W. M. McPeek (1985)
GRE Board Report No. 78-04R - Analysis of Score Change Patterns of Examinees Repeating the Graduate Record Examinations General Test
By N. M. Kingston and N. J. Turner (1984)
GRE Board Report No. 83-05P - The Assessment of Writing Ability: A Review of Research
By P. L. Cooper (1984)
GRE Board Report No. 82-15R - Procedural Manual for Conducting Content Representativeness Studies
By P. K. Oltman (1983)
Supplement to GRE Board Report No. 81-12P - Effects of Coaching on GRE Aptitude Test Scores
By D. E. Powers (1983)
GRE Board Report No. 81-03R - Investigation of Practice Effects on Item Types in the GRE Aptitude Test
By S. S. Swinton, C. L. Wild, and M. M. Wallmark (1983)
GRE Board Report No. 80-01cP - A Summary of the Research Leading to the Revision of the Format of the Graduate Record Examinations Aptitude Test in October 1981
By C. L. Wild, S. S. Swinton, and M. M. Wallmark (1982)
GRE Board Report No. 80-01aR - The Effect of the Position of an Item within a Test on Item Responding Behavior: An Analysis Based on Item Response Theory
By N. M. Kingston and N. J. Dorans (1982)
GRE Board Report No. 79-12bP - Effects of Self-Study of Test Familiarization Materials for the Analytical Section of the GRE Aptitude Test
By D. E. Powers and S. S. Swinton (1982)
GRE Board Report No. 79-09R - A Comparison of Free-Response and Multiple-Choice Forms of Verbal Aptitude Tests
By W. C. Ward (1982)
GRE Board Report No. 79-08P - A Study of the Effects of Special Preparation on GRE Analytical Scores and Item Types
By S. S. Swinton and D. E. Powers (1982)
GRE Board Report No. 78-02R - Construct Validity of the GRE Aptitude Test Across Populations — An Empirical Confirmatory Study
By D. A. Rock, C. E. Werts, and J. Grandy (1982)
GRE Board Report No. 78-01P - The Inventory of Documented Accomplishments for Graduate Admissions: Results of a Field Trial Study of Its Reliability, Short-Term Correlates, and Evaluation
By L. L. Baird and J. E. Knapp (1981)
GRE Board Report No. 78-03R - An Analysis of Time-Related Score Increments and/or Decrements for GRE Repeaters Across Ability and Sex Groups
By D. A. Rock and C. Werts (1980)
GRE Board Report No. 77-09R - An Annotated Bibliography of Studies of Test Speededness
By T. F. Donlon (1980)
GRE Board Report No. 76-09R - The Criterion Problem: What Measure of Success in Graduate Education?
By R. T. Hartnett and W. W. Willingham (1979)
GRE Board Report No. 77-04R