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To continue our discussion of the commercialization of non-profit assessment organizations, it is worth taking a moment to explore how the TOEFL program at ETS has commercialized test preparation in recent months. Back in 2025, ETS offered the following free TOEFL preparation options: The TOEFL course on edX.  This 6-week self-guided course was developed and […]

A new 990 form for Cambridge Michigan Language Assessment, LLC is now available.  This is the non-profit organization which owns and administers the Michigan Language Assessment suite of tests (the MET, most notably). The 990 indicates program service revenues of 9.21 million USD for the year ending July 2025.  That’s an increase of 8.67% from […]

Here’s my newest substack, all about the business of English testing.  I swear, I’m going to soon start uploading these every second week.

I missed a few recent transactions when summarizing the movement of assessment from non-profit to for-profit hands. Most notably, the non-profit American Institutes for Research sold its assessment business to a PE firm called Veritas Capital back in 2019 for what appears to have been a net gain of about 345 million USD.  Veritas are […]

Springer has published a new book called “Quality Standards for Remote Digital Language Testing.” Edited by Tony Clark and Emma Bruce, the book “is a collation of evidence-based test provider and institutional accounts of the remote online delivery and administration of tests originally developed for in-centre delivery.” The editors also “propose a framework… to support […]