{"id":61071,"date":"2022-12-02T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=61071"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:55:27","slug":"science-prof-jennifer-m-gomez-explains-patterns-inequality-standardized-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/science-prof-jennifer-m-gomez-explains-patterns-inequality-standardized-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Professor Jennifer M. G\u00f3mez Explains Patterns of Inequality in Standardized Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Standardized testing has increasingly been scrutinized as part of the education application review process, and many universities have opted to drop requirements for test scores. While the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) can determine admission decisions for graduate degrees, the test requires hours of studying, payment to take the test, transportation to and from testing centers, and other considerations that do not make it accessible to all applicants. Professor Jennifer M. G\u00f3mez, an expert in institutional discrimination, talked to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about how the GRE reinforces inequalities in higher education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Excerpt from \u201c<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/gre-exit-gains-momentum-ph-d-programs-drop-exam-requirement-amid-pandemic?cookieSet=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><i>\u2018GRExit\u2019 Gains Momentum as Ph.D. Programs Drop Exam Requirement<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u201d by Katie Langin, originally posted in Science:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"\/ssw\/files\/2020\/05\/quotation-mark-clip-art-quotation-mark-clip-art-eLnGgo-clipart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2020\/05\/quotation-mark-clip-art-quotation-mark-clip-art-eLnGgo-clipart-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"quotation mark\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" class=\"wp-image-47976 alignleft\" \/><\/a>Logistical concerns came on top of research indicating the GRE doesn\u2019t predict whether a student will succeed in graduate school. \u2018The data has to be relevant. Otherwise it\u2019s just noise,\u2019 says Jennifer G\u00f3mez, an assistant professor at Boston University School of Social Work, who has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/buy\/2021-32469-001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">studied the use of GRE scores in psychology admissions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u2018The GRE predicts nothing of substance beyond grades.\u2019 On top of that, the test \u2018unfairly privileges certain groups\u2014white men in particular,\u2019 she says.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/gre-exit-gains-momentum-ph-d-programs-drop-exam-requirement-amid-pandemic?cookieSet=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full article here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/jennifer-m-gomez\/\"><b>Learn More about Professor G\u00f3mez\u2019s Research<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standardized testing has increasingly been scrutinized as part of the education application review process, and many universities have opted to drop requirements for test scores. While the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) can determine admission decisions for graduate degrees, the test requires hours of studying, payment to take the test, transportation to and from testing centers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":61073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7440,7520,7511,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76228,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61071\/revisions\/76228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}