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Direct linkChung, Sun Joo; Haider, Iftikhar; Boyd, Ryan – Language Teaching, 2015
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the English Placement Test (EPT) is the institutional placement test that is used to place students into appropriate English as a second language (ESL) writing and/or pronunciation service courses. The EPT is used to assess the English ability of newly admitted international undergraduate…
Descriptors: College English, Student Placement, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Qian, David D. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
In the last 15 years or so, language testing practitioners have increasingly favored assessing vocabulary in context. The discrete-point vocabulary measure used in the old version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) has long been criticized for encouraging test candidates to memorize wordlists out of context although test items…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Context Effect, Vocabulary, English (Second Language)
Download full textGarcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2006
Computers have become a solution for many traditional problems from the kitchen to the school. It is not, therefore, uncommon to use them to solve existing problems. It is also quite frequent that different educational needs can lead to similar solutions. For instance, the Australian immigration services use a number of exams to allow the access…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Testing, Language Tests
Labi, Aisha – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
Educators in Europe are complaining about mishandled changes in a key English-language test and are demanding that the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which runs the examination, delay plans to introduce its new online format in March 2006 in more than 100 countries. Critics of the planned change in the Test of English as a foreign Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Foreign Students, Educational Testing
Pike, Lewis W. – 1979
This evaluative and developmental study was undertaken between 1972-74 to determine the effectiveness of items used for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in relationship to other item types used in assessing English proficiency, and to recommend possible changes in TOEFL content and format. TOEFL was developed to assess the English…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Essay Tests, Foreign Students
Stansfield, Charles W. – 1986
A history of the Test of Written English (TWE), a section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), describes its inception and development process. The new test is a thirty-minute essay test providing a measure of a non-native English-speaker's ability to perform academic writing tasks similar to those required of international…
Descriptors: Educational History, English (Second Language), Essay Tests, Foreign Students
