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4 unusual facts about Educational Testing Service


Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street

Using outside research groups like the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the Workshop wanted to ascertain if watching the show made any difference.

Demographics of Chile

The evaluation is compulsory and the instrument is TOIEC Bridge, developed by Educational Testing Service.

Gwyneth Boodoo

She has worked for Educational Testing Service, where she directed a research program on Equity in Assessment from 1990–1992 and wrote the “Fairness” chapter of the 2000 revised version of the ETS Standards for Quality and Fairness.

Penelope Schott

At Educational Testing Service in the 1980s she was part of the Guidance Research Group, which developed the SIGI PLUS career information system.


Ann Birstein

She was married to and later divorced the literary critic Alfred Kazin, with whom she has a daughter, Cathrael Kazin, an executive director at ETS; she is stepmother to professor and author Michael Kazin.

Charles W. Cole

Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge, Educational Testing Service, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.

Christopher L. Eisgruber

Eisgruber has served on several boards, including the academic advisory board of Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses; the Board of Trustees of the Educational Testing Service; and the Board of Trustees of Princeton University Press.


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