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Download full textClark, John L. D. – 1977
Recent forms of the new three-section Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were administered to 88 native speakers of English just prior to graduation from a college-preparatory high school program. Total test score distributions were highly negatively skewed, reinforcing findings of earlier studies that the TOEFL is not psychometrically…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Educational Research, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Swinton, Spencer S.; Powers, Donald E. – 1980
A factor analytic study of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was undertaken to determine the component abilities that underlie performance on the test for several major language groups: African, Arabic, Chinese (non-Taiwanese), Farsi, Germanic, Japanese, and Spanish. Evidence was found that three major factors underlie performance…
Descriptors: Arabs, Educational Research, English (Second Language), Factor Analysis
