ETS Research & Development is responsible for the following:

• Providing fair accurate and meaningful products and services.
  One area of focus for R&D is to maintain the validity and fairness of the products and services offered by the organization in the educational contexts in which they are used.
• Driving innovation that advances assessment, learning and teaching.
  R&D investigates, develops and discovers new uses for technologies in areas such as data analysis, learning and teaching, literacy services, profile scoring and new constructs.
• Providing content, methods and processes for manufacturing ETS products.
  R&D provides the content, methods and processes essential for the manufacture of ETS's diverse portfolio of products and services in such areas as psychometric infrastructure, assessment design, scoring capabilities, statistical analysis and constructed response.
• Advancing the field of educational measurement through its experience, capability and leadership.
  R&D routinely conducts and publishes innovative statistical and methodological research and develops applications to solve problems that arise in educational testing; the social and behavioral sciences; and management, policy and operations research.
• Watch our video, "Positioning Educational Assessment for the 21st Century (Flash, 12:09/58.4MB)