CLEP Sociology grrr

[Jonathan Whatley]

Remember, some of the questions on CLEPs are pretest questions that won't be scored. The College Board is testing the reliability of the questions themselves. It's very possible that they're "pretesting" one or more pretest W.E.B. Du Bois questions. If students who do well on the rest of the sociology test consistently do well on the pretest W.E.B. Du Bois questions, this suggests those new questions are reliable and good to add to the bank of "real" test questions in the future. If students who do well on the rest of the sociology test are, comparatively, all over the map on the new W.E.B. Du Bois questions, the new questions are probably not reliable.