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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.
Common Educational Proficiency Assessment (CEPA) is a set of locally-developed standardized tests used for admissions and placement by three federal institutions of higher education in the United Arab Emirates (Zayed University, the Higher Colleges of Technology, and UAEU).
In England and Wales ETS Europe were contracted to operate the National Curriculum assessments on behalf of the government. ETS took over this role from Edexcel in 2008. The first year of their operation was struck by a number of problems, including the late arrival of scripts to examiners, a database of student entries being unavailable, and countrywide reports of problems with the marking of ...
[2] The first Advanced Placement exams were administered in 1954 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to students limited to 27 schools participating at that time. In 1955, the College Board assumed leadership of the program and testing, deciding on curricula and pedagogical approaches, while retaining ETS to design and score the tests.
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.
Educational Testing Service offers "e-rater", an automated essay scoring program. It was first used commercially in February 1999. [10] Jill Burstein was the team leader in its development. ETS's Criterion Online Writing Evaluation Service uses the e-rater engine to provide both scores and targeted feedback.
The Test of Spoken English (TSE) was an oral test developed by Educational Testing Service which measured the ability of nonnative English speakers to communicate effectively. As of March 2010, the TSE has been superseded by the speaking portion of the TOEFL iBT as well as by the SPEAK test.
The legal business name is "Educational Testing Service." The brandname used is "ETS." There is no "the" as in "the Educational Testing Service" or "the ETS." This is a common mistake. I recommend using the spelled out name the first time in the article, and "ETS" after that.Henrycaesar 21:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)