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  2. Educational Testing Service - Wikipedia

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    Educational Testing Service welcome sign 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.

  3. Randy Elliot Bennett - Wikipedia

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    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 measurement to improve ...

  4. ACT (for-profit organization) - Wikipedia

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    Lindquist also used the ITED tests to help develop the Armed Forces Tests of General Educational Development, better known as the GED. In 1958 at a conference sponsored by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Lindquist presented The Nature of the Problem of Improving Scholarship and College Entrance Examinations.

  5. Henry Chauncey - Wikipedia

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    Henry Chauncey (February 9, 1905 – December 3, 2002) was a founder and the first president of the Educational Testing Service (ETS). As a Harvard University administrator, he helped popularize the use of the Scholastic Aptitude Test in college admissions.

  6. Frederic M. Lord - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Samuel Messick - Wikipedia

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    Messick worked as a psychologist for the Educational Testing Service (ETS). [1] He examined construct validity.Messick influenced language testing in 2 main ways: in proposing a new understanding of how inferences made based on tests must be challenged, and in drawing attention to the consequences of test use.

  8. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and ...

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    The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is a research partnership consisting of UCLA, the University of Colorado, Stanford University, RAND, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Southern California, Educational Testing Service, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

  9. Institute for Student Achievement - Wikipedia

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    ISA was founded in 1990 by philanthropists Gerard and Lilo Leeds, became a division of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in 2013, and supported schools and school districts in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and other states. [1]