Areas of Expertise

If you’d like to apply for an internship with ETS R&D, you should have expertise or an interest in at least one of the areas below. We also welcome applications from scholars around the world who wish to conduct independent research in a field of interest to ETS and to connect with ETS's community of researchers.
 

• assessment design
• validity
• fairness
• psychometric modeling

• higher education and workforce
• undergraduate and graduate admissions
• teacher education
• language learning, teaching and assessment
• K–12 learning, teaching and assessment
   

• research engineering
• back, front and full stack software development
   

• the science of how individuals learn most effectively and impactful instructional design
   

• speech recognition and computational linguistics
   

• tracking and assessing implementation and outcomes of projects and programs
   

•  cognitive, educational and industrial-organizational psychology
   

• instrument and data collection (e.g., interview, focus group, observations)
• qualitative data analysis
   

• machine learning
• causal inference
• computational statistics
• hierarchical modeling
   

• user experience research and/or design
   

• upskilling and reskilling
• career to workforce transition
• skills training and skills-based hiring