The ETS Research Report Series features peer-reviewed articles based on measurement and education research conducted by the scientists at ETS. Our reports have been available to teachers, policy makers, and the general public since our first volume was published in 1948. Topics range from English language learning and mathematics skills to teacher preparedness and workforce development to assessments and artificial intelligence. Articles are published in three sections: reports, memoranda, and notes. Issues prior to 2025 are available at the Wiley Online Library. Our staff includes Executive Editor Daniel F. McCaffrey, Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics, and more than a dozen associate editors.
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The ETS Research Reports Series has been providing research on measurement and education to teachers, policy makers, and the general public since 1948. Our back issues are available on the Wiley Online Library. Today, our journal includes three types of articles about topics in measurement and education research: research reports, research memoranda, and research notes.
Research reports address topics in educational research through
- empirical studies;
- contributions to psychological, psychometric, and statistical theory ;
- critiques of current theories, research, and practices;
- reviews of the literature and meta analyses; and
- computer program documentation that is likely to be of general interest to the profession and that has substantial methodological components
Research memoranda have a more limited focus and include
- psychometric analyses (e.g., reliability, validity, scaling, equating, and/or standard setting studies) of specific ETS programs that are of interest to both ETS staff and users or potential users of products of the programs outside of ETS,
- dissemination of preliminary results of ETS research studies,
- summaries of evidence supporting the development of ETS tests, and
- program documentation that is of more specific interest to ETS or that is relatively short and has relatively limited methodological discussion
- computer program documentation that is of more specific interest to ETS or has a relatively limited methodological discussion.
Research notes capture specific information about an ETS study, are illustration heavy, and may be more suitable for a policy, education, or lay audience.
Our reports are copyrighted by ETS and published here under Creative Commons License CCL-BY-NC-ND. Per that license, credit must be given to the authors, only noncommercial use of the articles is permitted, and no derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted. For additional permissions, please contact Ayleen Gontz, senior editor at ETS.
