Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Last Updated: Spring 2023

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The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization. It builds assessments based on rigorous research and a commitment to quality. ETS annually develops, administers, and scores more than 50 million tests in more than 180 countries at more than 9,000 locations. Research & Development focuses on research to promote fairness and equity in learning, in four main areas:
  1. Teaching, learning and assessment that responds to the social and cultural factors for U.S. learners
  2. Innovations in global English-language teaching, learning and assessment
  3. Equity in global higher education admissions and student success and in workforce transition
  4. Innovations in testing and research methods to advance validity, fairness, equity and operational excellence
Some of the assessment needs R&D serves:
  • formative, benchmark and summative research and applications in grades K–12
  • administration of Advanced Placement® exams (for the College Board®)
  • admissions in higher education
  • licensure for K–12 educators
  • English-language proficiency for higher education (both U.S.-based and international) and the global workplace
ETS also maintains ETS® AI Labs™.  Four primary areas make up the labs: AI Technologies, AI Research and Data Science, Learning Science and Design, and Capability Development.

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