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.

• Length of Textual Response as a Construct–Irrelevant Response Strategy: The Case of Shell Language
  by I. I. Bejar, W. VanWinkle, N. Madnani, W. Lewis, & M. Steier
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-07
• Contributions of a Nonprofit Educational Measurement Organization to Education Policy Research
  by R. J. Coley, M. E. Goertz, & G. Z. Wilder
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-06, ETS R&D Scientific and Policy Contributions Series No. SPC-13-02
• A Criterion to Evaluate the Individual Raw-to-Scale Equating Conversions
  by H. Guo, G. Puhan, & M. Walker
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-05
• Discourse Characteristics of Writing and Speaking Task Types on the TOEFL iBT® Test: A Lexico-Grammatical Analysis
  by D. Biber & B. Gray
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-04, TOEFL iBT Research Series No. 19
• Choice of Target Population Weights in Rater Comparability Scoring and Equating
  by G. Puhan
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-03
• Exploring Alternative Test Form Linking Designs With Modified Equating Sample Size and Anchor Test Length
  by L. Wang, J. Qian, & Y.-H. Lee
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-02
• ETS Research on Cognitive, Personality, and Social Psychology: I
  by L.J. Lawrence
  ETS Research Report No. RR-13-01, ETS R&D Scientific and Policy Contributions Series No. SPC-13-01