Educational Testing
Service and Farragut High School Take Top Honors in First Annual
Learning Impact Award (LIA) Global Competition:
An Interview with Gary Driscoll
For the past six decades, the Educational Testing Service, or ETS as it
is perhaps better known, has strived to advance quality and equity in
education by providing fair and valid assessments, research, and
related services for all people worldwide. The non-profit organization
also has been an active participant with the IMS Global Learning
Consortium in establishing standards for the exchange of question and
test items. IMS recently talked with Gary Driscoll, ETS' Director of
Scoring, Reporting and Technology, and Aleeta Johnson, an English
teacher with Farragut High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is one
of the early users of ETS' CriterionSM online writing evaluation service.
ETS'
Criterion service received the highest ranking in the 2007 Learning
Impact Awards competition for its capacity to directly help students in
a personal and measurable way and for the ease with which teachers can
begin using it in the classroom.
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