ETS provides pioneering educational research and analysis, innovative educational assessment and product development and informative policy studies to advance both quality and equity in education for all people worldwide. View our research portfolio (PDF).
New and Noteworthy
- Hispanicity and Educational Inequality: Risks, Opportunities and the Nation's Future
The 2009 Tomás Rivera Lecture explores the opportunities and challenges provided by the rapidly growing school-age Hispanic population in the United States. - ETS Policy Notes — Preschool Education: New Jersey and the Nation
This issue of ETS Policy Notes (Volume 17, No. 2) provides highlights from a Policy Forum that explored the state of preschool education in New Jersey and the nation. - Constructed-Response Test Questions: Why We Use Them; How We Score Them
This issue of R&D Connections describes reasons for having test takers write essays, mathematical equations, or musical notation rather than simply answering multiple-choice questions.
Policy and Research Reports
ETS publishes several educational studies each year through the Policy Information Center and various research report series. Here is a sample of recent publications.
- National Education Standards — Getting Beneath the Surface
- Exploring What Works in Science Instruction: A Look at the Eighth-Grade Science Classroom
- R&D Connections — Measuring Learning Outcomes in Higher Education
- ETS Policy Information Report — Parsing the Achievement Gap II
- America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future
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