Critiicism
In his book, "Uneducated Guesses", Howard Wainer refers to Cole's presidency of the ETS as "disastrous":, and criticizes the ETS's decision to rename the Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test, which he describes as "redundant and virtually meaningless".
FairTest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing reports that during this period, ETS " ignored internal warnings about security problems in its computer adaptive Graduate Record Exam (GRE), according to documents recently made public in a U.S. district court...To protect its image and profits in the rush to introduce the new type of test into the marketplace, ETS also misled the New York State legislature about how the system actually worked...In fact, in her deposition, ETS President Nancy Cole admits it is now clear, in retrospect, that back in November of 1994, one or two good memorizers could have given a substantial advantage to a subsequent test-taker."
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