Bobby Rampey is a senior program management lead in the ETS Research Institute. He is also an author for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) at ETS. He received his B.A. in English from Furman University in 1993 with the assistance of an Alden Transfer Scholarship awarded to one community college transfer student per year. A recipient of a Mellon Fellowship for graduate studies in the humanities, he earned his M.A. in English literature from Rutgers University in 1997.
He has held a variety of jobs in his 40 years of work, ranging across many fields: he has worked as a bicycle mechanic, a night-shift janitor, a classroom aide, a church sexton, a proofreader of legal contracts, and an instructor in English at Rutgers. During his 20-year career at ETS, he has worked mainly as a test developer and author. He led the development of the Career and Technical Education certificate for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). He has been an author on reports for the National Indian Education Study within NAEP, as well as a Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) report about the skills and experiences of the men and women incarcerated in America’s prisons.
Last updated: 2/9/2026