News & events

• 12/01/2011 ETS acquires Computerized Assessments and Learning

  Educational Testing Service (ETS) has purchased Computerized Assessments and Learning (CAL), LLC, an industry-leading computerised assessment company based in Lawrence, Kansas. CAL's adaptive testing platform provides products and services to support instructional and learning processes for K–12 education systems.CAL provides online formative, interim and summative testing for large-scale and local assessment programmes. Working with states like Alaska, Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, South Carolina,...

• 10/01/2011 ETS Global launches a new, revamped TFI website – www.tfi-europe.com

  ETS Global, the leading academic and business assessment company, has launched its new, revamped TFI website – www.tfi-europe.com. This new website is a simpler and more effective version of the older TFI website site.According to Axel Ronsin, IT/eBusiness Director, ETS Global, “While the older version of the website was admirable and served its purpose well, we were looking for something more transaction-oriented, a site that would allow test takers to quickly and easily register for a test or...

• 09/01/2011 Prometric and AMIDEAST partner to open a professional test centre in Tunisia

  Prometric, the leading provider of testing and assessment services, announced that it has teamed up with AMIDEAST to open a new Professional Testing Centre in Tunisia that will offer academic and professional credentialing exams for the first time.The test centre, which is the first of its kind in the country to support exams other than IT certifications, will provide a convenient new testing location for Tunisian test takers who previously had to travel in order to test. Managed by AMIDEAST,...

• 06/06/2010 ETS unveils redesigned ETS.org website

  ETS has launched a new and improved version of the corporate site - www.ets.org. Improvements and new features of the redesigned ETS.org site ─ including shorter, friendlier URLs and streamlined content ─ present an enhanced experience compared to the old site. These improvements also heighten the site’s visual impact, provide a better platform to market ETS’s brands, and highlight the key capabilities that differentiate ETS from its competitors, such as the expertise of the Research &...

• 31/05/2010 ETS participates in the 7th Annual EALTA 2010 conference

  ETS and ETS Global participated in the 7th Annual EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment) Conference 2010 which was held in the Hague, The Netherlands between the 27 and 30 of May. The theme of the 2010 EALTA Conference was “Collaboration in language testing and assessment“.ETS is a sponsor of this annual conference.

• 27/05/2010 ETS Global forges strong relationships in Egypt; AMIDEAST appointed exclusive distributor in the region

  ETS Global met with various organisations in Egypt last month to discuss the country’s current education systems and the use of the TOEIC® test in preparing students for the workforce. During the meetings, Zoubir Yazid, Managing Director of ETS Global BV, and Theodore Kattouf, President and CEO of America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST), announced that AMIDEAST had been named the exclusive Country Master Distributor (CMD) for the TOEIC family of tests and the TOEFL®...

• 26/11/2009 ETS Global is moving offices

  ETS Global is moving. From November 30th 2009 on our offices will be located at the following address.ETS Global,43-45 rue Taitbout75009 ParisOur contact telephone numbers and contact e-mails remain the same.Conveniently placed in the centre of Paris, our new office hosts a brand new test room which fits to the latest HEQ standards and is equipped to welcome disabled candidates as well to the TOEIC®, TOEIC® Bridge, TOEFL® iBT and TFI™ test sessions.Download the access plan to the new ETS...

• 23/08/2009 ETS and ETS Global organise the first EMEA regional meeting

  ETS and ETS Global strategic priorities served as the overarching message throughout this year’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regional meeting, held in Paris on July 8th and 9th. Nearly 70 ETS, ETS Global and ETS Preferred Network (EPN) members representing 25 countries gathered at the Hotel du Louvre for the two-day event.The annual event will provide those who support and sell ETS products and services in the EMEA region an opportunity to receive information on ETS objectives and...

• 21/01/2009 ETS Global: using technology to transform business, e-enabling operations

  Launched in May 2007, ETS Global's e-business solution was developed to market and sell ETS Global assessments and services online. The platform comprises multiple e-stores in local languages that offer registration for test sessions, ordering of materials, online payment and invoicing, both for B2B and B2C customers. The e-business suite of tools function as a common, collaborative platform where all stakeholders (distributors, subsidiaries, Public Test Centres and clients – academic...

• 07/10/2008 IERI to organise the IERI Autumn Academy on Assessments design in November

  The IEA-ETS Research Institute IERI is organizing a four-day Autumn Academy on “Assessment Designs, Item Response Theory and Proficiency Estimates in Large Scale Assessments”. Instructors representing the IERI Autumn Academy include Matthias Von Davier and Kentaro Yamamoto from ETS.The IERI Autumn Academy 2008 will take place between November 11th and 14th, 2008 in  Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The general day-to-day schedule will consist of presentations during the morning, and hand-on...

• 02/10/2008 Gerben van Lent presents paper on "Risks and benefits of computer-based testing versus paper-and-pencil testing"

  In a workshop organised by the Educational Testing Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (IPSC), and the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning (CRELL) on the 29th and 30th of September in Iceland, Gerben van Lent, Executive Director of ETS Global, presented a paper on “Risks and benefits of computer-based testing versus paper-and-pencil testing”. The Expert Workshop was entitled “The Transition to Computer-Based Assessment: Lessons learned from the PISA...

• 02/10/2008 Gerben van Lent, Executive Director, ETS Global publishes paper on e-assessment

  Gerben van Lent, Executive Director of ETS Global has published a paper “Important Considerations in e-Assessment: An Educational Measurement Perspective on Identifying Items for an European Research Agenda”.  His paper is based on Friedrich Scheuermann & Angela Guimarães Pereira (Eds.) report “Towards a Research Agenda on Computer-based Assessment” published by the Joint Research Centre, European Commission. Van Lent presented his paper in the Expert Workshop on “Quality criteria for...

• 31/08/2008 ETS Global launches a new corporate website: www.etsglobal.org

  ETS Global, the leading academic and business assessment company, has launched its new corporate website – www.etsglobal.org. This new website is, in fact, a richer and more effective version of the older ETS EMEA site. According to Benoit Thao (Chief Operating Officer, ETS Global), the driving force behind the ETS Global websites, “The old family of EMEA websites was our first attempt at creating a strong online presence, and it surpassed internal expectations. However, ETS Global as an...

• 19/06/2008 ETS Acquires Prometric

  ETS has completed the previously announced acquisition of Prometric and its global network of testing centres in 135 countries from The Thomson Corporation for $435 million, subject to post-closing adjustments.  ETS is Prometric’s largest customer for technology-based delivery of tests like the TOEFL® (TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE™) test. Prometric, which had revenues of $317 million in 2006, will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ETS. Prometric has an extensive and...

• 19/06/2008 ETS Europe sponsors debate on compatibility of degrees and qualifications across Europe

  Entitled “How comparable are higher education degrees and qualifications across Europe?” the event was held in Brussels on September 20th. Organised by European Voice, a weekly newspaper with an independent view of the European Union whose mission is to promote informed debate, openness and progress in the EU, the event brought together representatives from the European Commission, European University Association (EUA), the British Parliament and the Bologna Process Group.The consensus brought...

• 19/06/2008 ETS Europe to chair LICOM Opening Event session

  LICOM Opening Event: Language competence of non-native instructors at universities offering English-taught programmes Jenny Dalalakis, Academic and Government Relations, ETS Europe, will chair a session during the opening event of the LICOM. In this session, she will pose a taboo question: What support is there for non-native instructors in universities that offer English-taught programmes? Presenters will give examples of different solutions where language centres help university staff by...

• 19/06/2008 ETS President and CEO Kurt Landgraf to Be Inducted Into New Jersey Business Hall of Fame

  Kurt M. Landgraf, president and CEO of ETS, will be inducted into the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame for his lifetime achievements and their positive impact on New Jersey.  The selection was made by a committee comprising leaders from the three partnering organizations — Junior Achievement of New Jersey, the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, and The Star Ledger. Inducted along with Landgraf will be Pamela J. Craig, CFO of Accenture, and Paul M. Pantozzi, Chairman and CEO of...

• 19/06/2008 ETS President Kurt Landgraf to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

  ETS President Kurt Landgraf is being honored for his accomplishments in the field of education and for his impact in serving diverse segments of New Jersey. The award will be presented by the Five Sector Alliance at its annual banquet on Nov. 2, 2006, in Livingston, N.J.The Five Sector Alliance was created by Christ Church in Montclair, N.J., with the purpose of galvanizing the expertise of select leaders from each of the sectors to make a lasting impact on society. The five sectors include the...

• 19/06/2008 European Voice and ETS Europe Present: “How comparable are higher education degrees and qualifications across Europe?”

  “How comparable are higher education degrees and qualifications across Europe?”20 September 2007Résidence PalaceRue de la Loi 155, 1040 Brussels11H00 – 13h00 followed by lunch The debate will be moderated by Tim King, deputy editor of European Voice, and will cover the following topics:- Progress in implementing the Bologna Process: does Europe have a system of easily readable and comparable degrees?- Quality assurance: what progress has been made towards comparable criteria and...

• 19/06/2008 Microsoft and ETS to jointly develop an educational tool

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