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O'Sullivan, Barry; Cheng, Liying – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
In this paper, we set out to explore the world's first major standardised examination system. In the field of language testing and assessment, works such as measured words (Spolsky, 1995), measured constructs (Weir, Vidakovic & Galaczi, 2013), and Cambridge English exams -- the first hundred years (Hawkey & Milanovic, 2013) all point to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Foreign Policy, Standardized Tests