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ETS® Proficiency Profile

Improve the quality of instruction and learning

Select a topic to see how the ETS® Proficiency Profile can provide the valid, reliable data you need.
 

Motivating Students

Published ETS research confirms that students' motivation in taking learning outcomes assessments has a significant impact on their test performance. To help you increase participation and motivate students to perform their best on the ETS Proficiency Profile, ETS offers performance-level certificates and badges for those taking the online Standard form.1

Certificates of Achievement and badges provide students with motivation to do well, which ultimately helps institutions to better position themselves for accreditation and performance funding. Plus, since they are electronic, students can share them with an unlimited number of recipients in academia and beyond.
 

Certificates of Achievement

Each performance level is clearly defined on the certificate and includes a description of the reading, writing, mathematics and critical thinking skills typically demonstrated by individuals scoring at each level.

Certificates are available for qualifying scores as shown in the samples below:

Badges

In addition to earning Certificates of Achievement, students earning a qualifying score can also earn an electronic badge:

  • Level 1 Proficiency — total score range 430–449
  • Level 2 Proficiency — total score range 450–470
  • Level 3 Proficiency — total score range 471–500

See a description of each proficiency level (PDF).
 

Accessing certificates and badges

Students who qualify for certificates and badges will receive an email notification with instructions for accessing the certificate and badge in the online student portal at myresultscentral.ets.org. Once logged into the portal, they can:

  • view, save and print a PDF version of their certificate
  • upload their badge to a Mozilla Backpack

1 Certificates and badges are not available to students taking the Abbreviated form or the Standard paper form.