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Educational Testing Service

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Educational Testing Service (ETS), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization. [1]

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Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board which offers college-level curricula and examinations to high school students.

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American Council on Education

The American Council on Education (ACE) is a U.S. higher education organization established in 1918.

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American Educational Research Association

The American Educational Research Association, or AERA, was founded in 1916 as a professional organization representing educational researchers in the United States and around the world.

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American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with around 117,500 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students.

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Answers.com

Answers.com is an Internet-based knowledge exchange, which includes WikiAnswers.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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California High School Exit Exam

The California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) was an examination created by the California Department of Education, that was previously mandated to administer in High Schools statewide in order to graduate.

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California Standardized Testing and Reporting Program

The Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program measures performance of students undergoing primary and secondary education in California.

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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) is a U.S.-based education policy and research center.

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Classical test theory

Classical test theory (CTT) is a body of related psychometric theory that predicts outcomes of psychological testing such as the difficulty of items or the ability of test-takers.

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Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".

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Cognitive style

Cognitive style or "thinking style" is a concept used in cognitive psychology to describe the way individuals think, perceive and remember information.

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College Board

College Board is an American non-profit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand access to higher education.

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College Level Examination Program

The College Level Examination Program also known as College Level Equivalency Program(CLEP) is a group of standardized tests created and administered by College Board.

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Confirmatory factor analysis

In statistics, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a special form of factor analysis, most commonly used in social research.

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David Rosenhan

David L. Rosenhan (November 22, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American psychologist.

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Department for Children, Schools and Families

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF; stylised as all lowercase) was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education.

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Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007, responsible for the education system (including higher education and adult learning) as well as children's services in England.

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Developmental psychology

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life.

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Differential item functioning

Differential item functioning (DIF) is a statistical characteristic of an item that shows the extent to which the item might be measuring different abilities for members of separate subgroups.

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Donald Rubin

Donald Bruce Rubin (born December 22, 1943) is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.

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East Los Angeles, California

East Los Angeles, or East L.A., is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California.

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Edexcel

Edexcel (known as Pearson - London Examinations in Malta) is a multinational education and examination body owned by Pearson.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Educational evaluation

Educational evaluation is the evaluation process of characterizing and appraising some aspect/s of an educational process.

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Equating

Test equating traditionally refers to the statistical process of determining comparable scores on different forms of an exam.

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ETS Europe

ETS Europe is the European arm of Educational Testing Service, an American company, involved in scholastic assessment in Europe.

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Ewing Township, New Jersey

Ewing Township is a township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

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Form 990

Form 990 (officially, the "Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax") is a United States Internal Revenue Service form that provides the public with financial information about a nonprofit organization.

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Frederic M. Lord

Frederic Mather Lord (November 12, 1912 in Hanover, NH – February 5, 2000) was a psychometrician for Educational Testing Service.

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Garfield High School (California)

James A. Garfield High School is a public, year-round high school founded in 1925 in East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California.

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Graduate Record Examinations

The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for most graduate schools in the United States.

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Herman Witkin

Herman A. Witkin (2 August 1916 – 8 July 1979) was an American psychologist who specialized in the spheres of cognitive psychology and learning psychology.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Holistic grading

Standards based tests use holistic grading to establish scoring of a paper.

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO) is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order.

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In-basket test

An in-basket test or an in-basket exercise is a test used by companies and governments in hiring and promoting employees.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.

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Item response theory

In psychometrics, item response theory (IRT) (also known as latent trait theory, strong true score theory, or modern mental test theory) is a paradigm for the design, analysis, and scoring of tests, questionnaires, and similar instruments measuring abilities, attitudes, or other variables.

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John Bissell Carroll

John Bissell Carroll (June 5, 1916 – July 1, 2003) was an American psychologist known for his contributions to psychology, educational linguistics and psychometrics.

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Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

The Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Sage Publications on behalf of the American Educational Research Association and American Statistical Association.

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Journal of Educational Measurement

The Journal of Educational Measurement is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell for the National Council on Measurement in Education.

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K. Patricia Cross

Kathryn Patricia Cross (born 1926) is a scholar of educational research.

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Karl Gustav Jöreskog

Karl Gustav Jöreskog (born 25 April 1935) is a Swedish statistician.

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K–12

K–12 (spoken as "k twelve", "k through twelve", or "k to twelve"), for kindergarten to 12th grade, indicates the sum of primary and secondary education in several nations, including India, the United States, Canada, Ecuador, South Korea, Turkey, Philippines, Egypt, Australia, Afghanistan, and Iran for publicly supported school grades prior to college.

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Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey

Lawrence Township is a township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

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LISREL

LISREL (linear structural relations) is a proprietary statistical software package used in structural equation modeling (SEM) for manifest and latent variables.

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Mercer County, New Jersey

Mercer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Michael Lewis (psychologist)

Michael Lewis (born January 10, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

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Missing data

In statistics, missing data, or missing values, occur when no data value is stored for the variable in an observation.

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National Assessment of Educational Progress

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects.

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National Center for Education Statistics

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States.

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National Curriculum assessment

National Curriculum assessment usually refers to the statutory assessments carried out in primary schools in England, colloquially known as SATs.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Norman O. Frederiksen

Norman “Fritz” Frederiksen was an American research psychologist and leading proponent of performance assessment, an approach to educational and occupational testing that focused on the use of tasks similar to the ones individuals actually encounter in real classroom and work environments.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London.

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Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Praxis test

A Praxis test is one of a series of American teacher certification exams written and administered by the Educational Testing Service.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township.

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Prometric

Prometric, also known as Prometric Testing, is a U.S. company in the test administration industry.

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PSAT/NMSQT

The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) is a standardized test administered by the College Board and cosponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) in the United States.

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Psychometric Society

The Psychometric Society is an international nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences.

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Psychometrics

Psychometrics is a field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement.

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Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency

The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) was a charity, and an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) of the Department for Education.

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Robert L. Linn

Robert L. Linn (June 29, 1938 – December 8, 2015) was an American educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the understanding of educational assessments.

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Robert S. Murley

Robert S. Murley is an American businessman.

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Rosenhan experiment

The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was an experiment conducted to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis.

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Rubin causal model

The Rubin causal model (RCM), also known as the Neyman–Rubin causal model, is an approach to the statistical analysis of cause and effect based on the framework of potential outcomes, named after Donald Rubin.

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Samuel Ball (educator)

Samuel Ball BA MEd PhD, FAPA (9 January 1933 – 9 December 2009) was an Australian researcher and academic in the field of education.

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Samuel Messick

Samuel J. Messick III (3 April 1931 – 6 October 1998) was an American psychologist professor whose work at the Educational Testing Service examined construct validity.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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SPEAK (test)

The Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit (SPEAK) is an oral test developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS).

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Standard-setting study

Standard-setting study is an official research study conducted by an organization that sponsors tests to determine a cutscore for the test.

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Standardized test

A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner.

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Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

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Structural equation modeling

Structural equation modeling (SEM) includes a diverse set of mathematical models, computer algorithms, and statistical methods that fit networks of constructs to data.

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Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and postsecondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education.

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TES (magazine)

Tes, formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement, is a weekly UK publication aimed primarily at school teachers in the UK.

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Test (assessment)

A test or examination (informally, exam or evaluation) is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs).

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Test de français international

The Test de français international (TFI) is a language proficiency test for non-native speakers of French.

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Test of English as a Foreign Language

Test of English as a Foreign Language® (TOEFL) is a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers wishing to enroll in English-speaking universities.

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Test validity

Test validity is the extent to which a test (such as a chemical, physical, or scholastic test) accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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TOEIC

The Test of English for International Communication® (TOEIC) is "an English language test designed specifically to measure the everyday English skills of people working in an international environment." There are different forms of the exam: The TOEIC Listening & Reading Test consists of two equally graded tests of comprehension assessment activities totaling a possible 990 score; There are also the TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests.

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Tucker decomposition

In mathematics, Tucker decomposition decomposes a tensor into a set of matrices and one small core tensor.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

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Writing assessment

Writing assessment refers to an area of study that contains theories and practices that guide the evaluation of a writer's performance or potential through a writing task.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Testing_Service

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