ETS Research Fellowship and Internship Programs

ETS Research & Development offers several programs for scholars who either hold a doctoral degree or who are enrolled in a doctoral program in the field of educational research, measurement and related fields and who are interested in research opportunities. Areas of emphasis include the following:

  • educational measurement and psychometrics
  • validity
  • natural language processing and speech technologies
  • cognitive psychology
  • learning theory
  • linguistics and computational linguistics
  • teaching and classroom research
  • statistics
  • international large-scale assessments
  • assessment design and development

ETS Summer Internship Program in Research for Graduate Students >

Interns conduct research under the guidance of an ETS mentor in Princeton, N.J. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a full-time doctoral program and have completed a minimum of two years of coursework toward their Ph.D. or Ed.D.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program >

Selected fellows work on ETS research projects and conduct their proposed independent research that is relevant to ETS’s goals under the mentorship of ETS senior researchers and scientists in Princeton, N.J. Candidates must have received their Ph.D. or Ed.D. within the past three years and must demonstrate scholarship in one of the areas listed above.

Sylvia Taylor Johnson Fellowship in Educational Measurement >

Selected fellows work on ETS research projects and conduct their proposed independent research that is relevant to ETS’s goals under the mentorship of ETS senior researchers and scientists in Princeton, N.J. Candidates must have received their Ph.D. or Ed.D. within the past 10 years. Research proposals focused on issues concerning the education of minority students are especially encouraged.

Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship Program >

Fellows study at their universities during the academic year and conduct a research project under the supervision of an academic mentor and in consultation with ETS research scientists or psychometricians. Selected fellows are invited to participate in the ETS Summer Internship Program. Applicants must be enrolled in a doctoral program, have completed all required coursework, and be working on a dissertation related to statistics, psychometrics, educational measurement or quantitative methods.