Case Studies

In 2023, ETS was honored to mark its 40-year relationship with NAEP. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, NAEP is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students…

ETS helped NCES design and build the Next Generation NAEP delivery system (NextGen eNAEP) platform for NAEP assessments. This extensive new delivery system allows NAEP assessments to be conducted with or…

ETS’s California Product Strategy team designed an innovative way for the CDE to assess science and supplement traditional summative assessments. Designed as a performance-task for teachers, this new approach also...

A joint ETS-CDE team collaborated on a common problem: finding the best way to summarize student growth scores for students within a school, district or student group to reduce the  “yo-yo effects” of average growth scores…

ETS collaborated with Yale to create the ETS^® Personal Skills and Qualities Tool (PSQ), an assessment that measures the essential inter- and intrapersonal “soft” skills that can predict academic success. Yale trusted our team of experts…

Since 2017, the ETS R&D team has continuously provided psychometric and research services associated with training and consultation to the Shanghai Municipal Educational Examinations Authority (SMEEA), the agency…

In 2021, Universities in Ireland began supplementing in-person exams with Accredited Grades for their university admissions process. Ireland's Department of Education and State Examinations Commission tapped ETS R&D to develop a…

From 2015 to 2022, ETS R&D managed the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a multinational survey that measures 15-year-olds' ability…

A global company developed a tool for assessing safety behaviors for a country outside of the United States. In 2020, they contracted with R&D for 4 months to validate the tool and to determine whether it mitigates safety-related…