ETS Research Spotlight

ETS Research Spotlight provides examples of the range of ETS's assessment-related research capabilities. It also offers a useful description of the types of research we do to support ETS's mission to advance quality and equity in education.

  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 7, November 2012
    Innovation in Reading Assessment
    by J. Johnson (ed.), H. Sandberg, and B. Whiteman
  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 6, March 2012
    CBAL™ Results From Piloting Innovative K–12 Assessments
    by J. Johnson (ed.) and R. Bennett
  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 5, August 2011
    Automated Scoring: Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays
    by J. Johnson (ed.), J. Burstein, J. Tetreault, and S. Andreyev
  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 4, March 2011
    A Summary of Applications That Use Student Academic Growth for K–12 Accountability and Implications for Students With Disabilities
    by J. Johnson (ed.), H. Buzick, and C. Laitusis

  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 3, March 2010
    Relationship Between Scores on the TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests and Test Takers' Perceptions of Their English Proficiency
    by D. E. Powers, H.-J. Kim, F. Yu, V. Z. Weng, and W. VanWinkle

    First Language of Examinees and Empirical Assessment of Fairness
    by S. Sinharay, L. Liang, and N. J. Dorans

    Highlights from the Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning (CBAL) Project in Mathematics
    by E. A. Graf, K. Harris, E. Marquez, J. H. Fife, and M. Redman

  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 2, February 2009
    A Developmental Writing Scale
    by D. Eignor (ed.), Y. Attali, and D. Powers

    Using Standard-Setting Methodology for Linking Assessment Scores to Proficiency Scales: TOEFL iBT™ and TOEIC® Assessment Exemplars
    by E. C. Wylie and R. J. Tannenbaum

    Equating of Mixed-Format Tests in Large-Scale Assessments
    by S. Kim, M. E. Walker, and F. McHale

    Multiple Methods of Assessing Information Literacy: A Case Study
    I. Katz and co-authors from ETS, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the Pratt Institute

  • ETS Research Spotlight Issue 1, February 2008
    Choice of Anchor Test in Equating
    by D. Eignor (ed.), S. Sinharay, and P. Holland

    Validating the Use of TOEFL® iBT Speaking Section Scores to Screen and Set Standards for International Teaching Assistants
    X. Xi

    Reading Aloud as an Accommodation for a Test of Reading Comprehension
    C. Cahalan Laitusis and L. L. Cook