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Messick Hall at ETS headquarters. Lord Hall at ETS headquarters. Educational Testing Service (ETS), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private educational testing and assessment organization. [3] It is headquartered in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, but has a Princeton address. ETS develops various standardized tests primarily in the ...
Randy Elliot Bennett. Randy Elliot Bennett is an American educational researcher who specializes in educational assessment. He is currently the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. His research and writing focus on bringing together advances in cognitive science, technology, and ...
Henry Chauncey. Henry Chauncey (February 9, 1905 – December 3, 2002) was a founder and the first president of the Educational Testing Service (ETS). [1] He graduated from Harvard College in 1928. [2]
ACT, Inc. was an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization (NTEE classification B90, Educational Services, per the IRS), [1] primarily known for the ACT, a standardized test designed to assess high school students' academic achievement and college readiness. However, in April 2024, it was announced that the company had been purchased by the ...
Nancy Cole is an educational psychologist and expert on educational assessment. Cole is past president of the American Educational Research Association and the Educational Testing Service (ETS), and former Dean of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina.
Lord first worked for the Carnegie Foundation in 1944. [1] [2] By 1950, he began working for the Educational Testing Service (ETS). [2]He was the source of much of the seminal research on item response theory, [3] including two important books: Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores (1968, with Melvin R. Novick, and two chapters by Allan Birnbaum), and Applications of Item Response Theory ...
It is administered on behalf of the College Board by the Educational Testing Service, [5] another non-profit organization which until shortly before the 2016 redesign of the SAT developed the test and maintained a repository of items (test questions) as well. [6] The test is intended to assess students' readiness for college.
In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational standards, often mandate standardized tests for K–12 public school systems and supervise, usually through a board of regents, state colleges, and universities.