For over 75 years, ETS has collaborated with corporations, governments, membership organizations, private foundations and other entities to help them design, deliver, manage and score assessment programs that drive better outcomes.
Managed the Assessment of Cognitive Skills Across Countries
From 2015 to 2022, ETS R&D managed the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a multinational survey that measures 15-year-olds' ability…
40+ Years of Assessments with NAEP, The Nation’s Report Card
In 2023, ETS was honored to mark its 40-year relationship with NAEP. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, NAEP is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students…
Created NextGen eNAEP, a New Assessment Delivery Platform
ETS helped NCES design and build the Next Generation NAEP delivery system (NextGen eNAEP) platform for NAEP assessments. This extensive new delivery system allows NAEP assessments to be conducted with or…
Enhanced California’s K-12 Assessment Programs for Science and Beyond
ETS’s California Product Strategy team designed an innovative way for the CDE to assess science and supplement traditional summative assessments. Designed as a performance-task for teachers, this new approach also...
Developed a New Model to Measure Student Growth in California
A joint ETS-CDE team collaborated on a common problem: finding the best way to summarize student growth scores for students within a school, district or student group to reduce the “yo-yo effects” of average growth scores…
Collaborated with Yale to Create the PSQ, a “Transferable Skills” Measurement
ETS collaborated with Yale to create the ETS® Personal Skills and Qualities Tool (PSQ), an assessment that measures the essential inter- and intrapersonal “soft” skills that can predict academic success. Yale trusted our team of experts…
Provided Research and Training in Psychometric Services to Shanghai’s Education Authority
Since 2017, the ETS R&D team has continuously provided psychometric and research services associated with training and consultation to the Shanghai Municipal Educational Examinations Authority (SMEEA), the agency…
Created a New Model for Evaluating Student Performance for Irish University Admissions
In 2021, Universities in Ireland began supplementing in-person exams with Accredited Grades for their university admissions process. Ireland's Department of Education and State Examinations Commission tapped ETS R&D to develop a…
Validating a Safety-Assessment Tool for Effectiveness and Compliance
A global company developed a tool for assessing safety behaviors for a country outside of the United States. In 2020, they contracted with R&D for 4 months to validate the tool and to determine whether it mitigates safety-related…
