ETS Research Report Series

The ETS Research Report Series provides dissemination of ETS research. The reports span a range of topics within the educational measurement research field from the theoretical to the practical. To request copies of available reports, please contact us.

Below is a selection of the latest research reports. Search for older reports in the reports database.

• Is There Any Interaction Between Background Knowledge and Language Proficiency That Affects TOEFL iBT® Reading Performance?
  by Y. Hill Zhang & O.L. Liu
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-22, TOEFL iBT Research Series No. TOEFLiBT-18
• The Language Muse System: Linguistically Focused Instructional Authoring
  by J. Burstein, J. Shore, J. Sabatini, B. Moulder, S. Holtzman, & T. Pedersen
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-21
• The Use of Quality Control and Data Mining Techniques for Monitoring Scaled Scores: An Overview
  by A.A. von Davier
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-20
• Topical Trends in a Corpus of Persuasive Writing
  by M. Heilman & N. Madnani
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-19
• Examining Linguistic Characteristics of Paraphrase in Test-Taker Summaries
  by J. Burstein, M. Flor, J. Tetreault, N. Madnani, & S. Holtzman
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-18
• What Can Repeated Cross-Sectional Studies Tell Us About Student Growth?
  by R.G. Almond & S. Sinharay
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-17
• Identifying Speech Acts in E-Mails: Toward Automated Scoring of the TOEIC® E-Mail Task
  by R. De Felice & P. Deane
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-16
• The Stability of the Score Scales for the SAT Reasoning Test™ From 2005 to 2010
  by H. Guo, J. Liu, E. Curley, & N. Dorans
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-15
• A Note on the Choice of an Anchor Test in Equating
  by S. Sinharay, S. Haberman, P. Holland, & C. Lewis
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-14
• A Note on Explaining Away and Paradoxical Results in Multidimensional Item Response Theory
  by P.W. van Rijn & F. Rijmen
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-13
• Does Preequating Work? An Investigation Into a Preequated Testlet-Based College Placement Exam Using Postadministration Data
  by R. Gao, W. He, & C. Ruan
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-12
• Why the Major Field Test in Business Does Not Report Subscores: Reliability and Construct Validity Evidence
  by G. Ling
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-11
• Assessing Quality in the Teaching of Content to English Language Learners
  by S. Tukan, A. Croft, J. Bicknell, & A. Barnes
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-10
• Examining the Impact of Drifted Polytomous Anchor Items
  on Test Characteristic Curve (TCC) Linking and IRT True Score Equating
  by Y. Li
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-09
• A Review of ETS Differential Item Functioning Assessment Procedures: Flagging Rules, Minimum Sample Size Requirements, and Criterion Refinement
  by R. Zwick
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-08
• Evaluating Academic Progress Without a Vertical Scale
  by W.M. Yen, V.F. Lall, & L. Monfils
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-07
• Evaluation of the e-rater® Scoring Engine for the TOEFL® Independent and Integrated Prompts
  by C. Ramineni, C.S. Trapani, D.M. Williamson,  T. Davey, & B. Bridgeman
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-06
• Understanding the Impact of Special Preparation for Admissions Tests
  by D.E. Powers
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-05, ETS R&D Scientific and Policy Contributions Series No. SPC-12-02
• Modeling Change in Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies of Educational Growth: Four Decades of Contributions to the Assessment of Educational Growth
  by D.A. Rock
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-04, ETS R&D Scientific and Policy Contributions Series No. SPC-12-01
• Effective Practices for Developing the Literacy Skills of English Language Learners in the English Language Arts Classroom
  by S. Turkan, J. Bicknell, & A. Croft
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-03
• Evaluation of e-rater® for the GRE® Issue and Argument Prompts
  by C. Ramineni, C.S. Trapani, D.M. Williamson, T. Davey, & B. Bridgeman
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-02
• Advancing the Quality and Equity of Education for Latino Students: A White Paper
  by J.W. Young, J. Lakin, R. Courtney, & M. Martiniello
  ETS Research Report No. RR-12-01