ETS+Fellowship

Dear Colleague:

I am pleased to provide you with information about the 2008-2009 Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowship and Internship Programs in Research and Development. These programs are designed to promote quality and distinction in educational measurement and related fields as well as to encourage original and significant research for scholars and graduate students. The goal of the programs is to provide talented individuals, especially women and underrepresented minority scholars and students, opportunities to carry out research under the mentorship of ETS senior research scientists and psychometricians. Areas of emphasis in research encouraged by this program include:
 * Measurement Theory
 * Validity
 * Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
 * Cognitive Psychology
 * Learning Theory
 * Linguistics
 * Speech Recognition and Processing
 * Teaching and Classroom Research
 * Statistics

The ETS Fellowship and Internship programs seek applicants who either hold a doctoral degree or who are enrolled in a doctoral program in one of the above fields and who are interested in research opportunities. I would like to solicit your help in getting this information out to your colleagues and your very best graduate students and alumni/ae. I encourage you and your colleagues to identify the strong candidates at your institution as well as your outstanding alumni/ae and ask them to apply.

ETS is seeking graduate students for the summer internship program. The program has been slightly redesigned to focus on major research activities that will occur in 2008. Interns participate in a wide range of areas of interest that reflect the ever-broadening role of measurement and underlying theory and technologies. Selected interns conduct research under the guidance of ETS mentors in Princeton, NJ. Graduate students who are currently enrolled in a full-time doctoral program in one of the areas listed above and who have completed a minimum of two years of coursework toward their PhD or EdD prior to the program start date are eligible to apply.

The Harold Gulliksen psychometric research program seeks graduate students who have completed their doctoral coursework and are at the dissertation stage of their program. Selected fellows study at their universities and participate in a research project under the supervision of an academic mentor and in consultation with an ETS scientist. The goal of this program is to increase the number of well-trained scientists in educational measurement, psychometrics, and statistics.

The postdoctoral fellowship programs seek individuals who hold a doctorate in one of the disciplines listed above. These programs provide talented scholars an opportunity to carry out independent research under the mentorship of ETS senior researchers. The programs are designed to promote excellence and to encourage original and significant research for early-career and seasoned scholars. ETS's Sylvia Taylor Johnson Minority Fellowship in Educational Measurement is among the group of postdoctoral fellowship programs. Applicants interested in the Sylvia Taylor Johnson fellowship must have received their doctorate within the past 10 years. Please take a moment to consider which qualified individuals you believe would benefit from this opportunity and help ETS achieve the program's goal. Attached is a general announcement for the programs for you to share and/or post at your institution.

The application process will open on November 1, 2007. At that time, information and application instructions will be posted on the ETS Web site at http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships.html. The deadline for applying for the summer internship and postdoctoral fellowship programs is February 1, 2008. The deadlines for applying for the Harold Gulliksen program are December 3, 2007 for the preliminary nomination materials and February 1, 2008 for the final application materials.

If you have any questions about the programs, please write to internfellowships. Thank you in advance for your assistance and support of these programs.



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