ETS ETS Research and Innovation 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the name of ETS's primary peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on educational measurement?
- ETS Research Report Series (Correct answer)
- Journal of Educational Statistics
- Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
- Psychometrika
Correct answer: ETS Research Report Series
ETS publishes the ETS Research Report Series, which disseminates technical research on psychometrics, test design, and educational measurement.
Question 2: Which ETS-developed automated scoring engine is widely used to score essays on standardized tests?
- ScoreRight
- e-rater (Correct answer)
- AutoScore
- TextEval
Correct answer: e-rater
e-rater is ETS's proprietary automated essay scoring system that uses natural language processing to evaluate writing quality.
Question 3: ETS's c-rater engine is designed to automatically score which type of test response?
- Multiple-choice answers
- Short constructed-response text answers (Correct answer)
- Oral speaking samples
- Mathematical proofs
Correct answer: Short constructed-response text answers
c-rater scores short constructed-response items by checking for key conceptual content in student-written answers.
Question 4: What does ETS's SpeechRater system primarily evaluate?
- Written grammar accuracy
- Spoken English proficiency (Correct answer)
- Reading comprehension speed
- Mathematical reasoning
Correct answer: Spoken English proficiency
SpeechRater is an automated spoken language scoring system developed by ETS to assess features like fluency, pronunciation, and prosody.
Question 5: Which ETS initiative focuses on developing assessments that measure skills such as critical thinking and collaboration alongside content knowledge?
- Project Kaleidoscope
- Learning and Educational Achievement Framework (LEAF)
- Performance Assessment Initiative
- 21st Century Skills Assessment (Correct answer)
Correct answer: 21st Century Skills Assessment
ETS has invested in 21st Century Skills Assessment research to measure competencies like collaboration and critical thinking that go beyond traditional content knowledge.
Question 6: ETS Research Institute conducts studies in which core area to improve the fairness of standardized testing?
- Marketing strategy
- Differential item functioning (DIF) (Correct answer)
- Test center logistics
- Publisher relations
Correct answer: Differential item functioning (DIF)
Differential item functioning (DIF) research identifies test items that may perform differently across demographic groups, helping ETS improve test fairness.
ETS ETS Research and Innovation 1
What is the name of ETS's primary peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on educational measurement?