> In fact, it stuns me that the College Board hasn't positioned the GRE as this kind of service..
The CS department at my alma mater did require the ETS Computer Science Field Exam for graduation. The results are interesting as you can compare your personal score against students from several dozen other universities as well as your department's score.
All the noise about standardized testing aside, I think that this sort of thing should be required for anyone to get a degree. I've met far too many people with Master's degrees who seem easily confused by basic math and science.
The fact that there aren't any measurable standards that go beyond the institutional level really dilutes the value of a degree.
The CS department at my alma mater did require the ETS Computer Science Field Exam for graduation. The results are interesting as you can compare your personal score against students from several dozen other universities as well as your department's score.
All the noise about standardized testing aside, I think that this sort of thing should be required for anyone to get a degree. I've met far too many people with Master's degrees who seem easily confused by basic math and science.
The fact that there aren't any measurable standards that go beyond the institutional level really dilutes the value of a degree.