EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

The 'Educational Testing Service' (or 'ETS') is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization, operating on an annual budget of approximately $900 million. ETS develops various standardized examinations primarily in the United States, but they also administer tests such as TOEFL internationally. Many of the assessments they develop are associated with entry to US tertiary (undergraduate) and quaternary education (graduate) institutions.
ETS is a US-registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with an international headquarters located on an 376-acre estate outside of Princeton, New Jersey in Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey^[1][2][3]; processing, shipping, customer service and test security is in nearby Ewing. 'ETS Europe' is headquartered in Utrecht in the Netherlands.^[4] ETS employs about 2,700 individuals,^[5] including 240 with doctorates and an additional 350 others with "higher degrees."
Much of the work carried out by ETS is contracted by the private, not for profit firm, the College Board. The most popular of the College Board's tests is the SAT, taken by more than 3 million students annually.

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ETS criticism

Tests administered by ETS

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References

External links

ETS criticism

ETS has been criticized for being a “highly competitive business operation that is as much multinational monopoly as nonprofit institution”. ^[6]
Due to its legal status as non-profit organization, ETS is exempt from paying federal income tax. Furthermore, it does not need to report financial information to the Securities and Exchange Commission. ^[7]
In response to growing criticism of its monopolistic power, New York state passed the Educational Testing Act, a disclosure law which required ETS to make available certain test questions and graded answer sheets to students. ^[8]

Tests administered by ETS

★ Graduate Record Examination (GRE)

★ SAT (formerly ''Scholastic Aptitude Test'')

★ Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT)

★ College Level Examination Program (CLEP)

★ Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

★ Test Of English for International Communications (TOEIC)

★ ''Test de français international'' (TFI)

★ California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE)

★ the Praxis test (formerly NTE)

See also

★ SAT

★ Criticism of the SAT

★ Nancy Cole

References

1. SAT + ETS = $$$, Alan Stoskopf, , , Rethinking Schools,
2. Board: New SAT to produce better writers
3. What Does It Mean to Be a Nonprofit Educational Measurement Organization in the 21st Century? Randy Elliot Bennett
4. ISTE 100 Directory: Educational Testing Service
5. A Syllabus Way Beyond The SATs Jennifer Merritt
6. Testing Giant Exceeds Roots, Drawing Business Rivals' Ire
7. Teacher Watch: ETS Monopoly Continues
8. Educational Testing Service - Hoover's profile

External links

★ Educational Testing Service homepage

★ ETS Signs New College Board Contract

★ 2004 Form 990 from the IRS - lists ETS' executives' incomes

★ Educational Testing Service in Europe homepage