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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
Geranpayeh, Ardeshir – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study conducted to determine if comparisons between scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the International English Language Testing Service (IELTS) are justifiable. The test scores of 216 Iranian graduate students who took the TOEFL and IELTS, as well as the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Higher…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Thompson, Michael – Forum, 2001
Provides insight on preparing students to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Specific suggestions include helping teachers to become comfortable with the test's computer-based format and helping students adapt to the test's point of view. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Hale, Gordon A. – 1988
It was hypothesized that a student's major-field area interacts with the text content in determining performance on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) reading passages. Results with 32,467 graduate school applicants, all nonnative English speakers, supported the study's hypothesis, as students in two major-field groups, the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Students, English (Second Language), Graduate Study
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