Teresa M. Ober, Ph.D. is a research scientist at the ETS Research Institute. Her research is centered around gathering knowledge to inform the development of contextualized, personalized, and equitable educational technologies that ultimately help to measure and can be used to support student engagement and learning. While at ETS, she has conducted foundational and applied research initiatives to understand issues facing students and teachers in K–12. One critical area includes the need to prepare K–12 students with durable, work-ready skills. Her current research focuses on developing frameworks to assess durable skills such as communication and digital/artificial intelligence literacy with an emphasis on a strengths-based approach. Another critical area includes developing an understanding of U.S. K–12 teacher’s barriers to initial licensure. She has recently been active in collaborating with a team to study trends related to teacher certification through analysis of licensure data. Prior to joining ETS, she obtained a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She previously served as an assistant research professor at the University of Notre Dame. During this time, she contributed to projects supported by the Institute for Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation.
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Last updated: 1/3/2025