Word: pretested
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...many of the screening methods on which ETS depends to ensure fairness in its exams are themselves the subject of the most heated criticism. For example, every question given on an SAT must be "pretested," a process ETS considers to be essential. ETS tries to see if the median score of students who answered the question correctly is higher than that of students who got the question wrong. This ensures that the tests will always measure the same things in the same way. Critics claim that by doing this ETS operates under the assumption that what it measures...