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Ching-Ni Hsieh – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
The TOEFL Junior® tests are designed to evaluate young language students' English reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills in an English-medium secondary instructional context. This paper articulates a validity argument constructed to support the use and interpretation of the TOEFL Junior test scores for the purpose of placement, progress…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Scores
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Papageorgiou, Spiros; Morgan, Rick; Becker, Valerie – International Journal of Testing, 2015
The purpose of this study was to enhance the meaning of the scores of an English-language test by developing performance levels and descriptors for reporting overall test performance. The levels and descriptors were intended to accompany the total scale scores of TOEFL Junior® Standard, an international test of English as a second/foreign…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Oltman, Philip K.; Stricker, Lawrence J. – 1988
A study examined the relationship of native language and level of English proficiency to the structure of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Using all of the information provided by various responses to the test's items (the four alternatives, omitted, and not reached), the items' interrelations were analyzed by three-way…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Clark, 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
Way, Walter D.; McKinley, Robert L. – 1991
Two procedures were developed to determine whether examinees in a given test center were affected by a testing irregularity on the Listening Comprehension section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). One approach employed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) on Listening Comprehension (Section 1) means using scores on Structure and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Bayesian Statistics, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Des Brisay, Margaret – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
Data from the Canadian Test of English for Scholars and Trainees (CanTEST) are compared to data from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to establish CanTEST as a valid admissions tool for English-as-a-Second Language college applicants. Data are taken from four groups of examinees who took both tests. (eight references) (LR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation