2025 Ida Lawrence Research Summer Internship Program

About ETS**:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

The ETS Research division conducts rigorous foundational and applied research on critical issues facing education and the workforce. Central to ETS's legacy of global leadership in learning and assessment, ETS Research is dedicated to advancing the science and practice of measurement, supporting equity of opportunity for all learners, and driving innovation in digital assessment, learning, and teaching.

**About the Internship**

As an Intern in the Research Institute, you'll work with experts who are nationally and internationally known as thought leaders, trusted advisors, and go-to collaborators for their high-impact research addressing significant educational and societal goals.

If you're accepted into the program, you'll collaborate with researchers on projects related to foundational and innovative topics in education. Upon the completion of the program, you'll have the opportunity to present your findings to teams across Research.

**Tasks**

You’ll perform any number of tasks associated with a research project, such as:

- developing a research plan to address a critical issue and executing the plan
- performing a literature review and developing new frameworks
- learning specialized procedures or software, if required
- working with data
- conducting various psychometric and statistical analyses with real or simulated data
- preparing a conference proposal
- drafting a research report and documenting research instruments
- presenting your findings to teams across Research
- A resume
- A copy of your graduate transcripts (unofficial copies are acceptable)
- Write your statements in a separate document and then copy and paste them into the appropriate field as the system will not save your work.

**Research Programs**

Intern research projects will be aligned with one of the following 12 research programs:

- Inventing a New Paradigm for Personalized Assessment in the Service of Equity
- Assessment of Complex Skills
- Innovations in Literacy and Communication Assessments
- Innovations in Interactive Digital Assessments in STEM
- Validity, Fairness and Ethics in AI
- Getting More from Large Scale Assessments
- Policy Research on Human Capital and Education
- Understanding Teaching Pathways
- Postsecondary Admissions
- Global Higher Education & Workforce Research Group
- K-12 Research
- Languages Research

**Experience and Skills**:
**Eligibility Requirements**

Current full-time enrollment in a relevant doctoral program

Completion of at least 2 years of coursework toward the doctorate prior to the internship program start date.

Relevant field of study in the following areas:

- AI/Machine learning
- Assessment, measurement, psychometrics, psychometric modeling
- Cognitive or learning sciences
- Education
- Linguistics and applied linguistics
- Process data and analysis
- Psychology
- Qualitative research methods
- Statistics and data science, computational statistics
- User experience/User interface
- Workforce

From: ETS GCC