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Download full textSchmidgall, Jonathan – Educational Testing Service, 2021
The redesigned "TOEIC Bridge"® tests are designed to measure the reading, listening, speaking, and writing proficiency of beginning to low-intermediate English learners in the context of everyday adult life. This report describes the comprehensive and multifaceted process used to enhance the meaningfulness of TOEIC Bridge test score…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Davis, Larry; Norris, John M.; Garcia Gomez, Pablo; Manna, Venessa F.; Monfils, Lora – Educational Testing Service, 2021
The "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test is a new English language proficiency test in the "TOEFL"® family of assessments. It measures foundational language skills and communication abilities in academic and general (daily life) contexts. The test covers the four language skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking and is intended…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Bailey, Alison L.; Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Ballard, Laura – Educational Testing Service, 2022
The research note focuses on the alignment aspect of English language proficiency (ELP) assessments, one of the required types of validity evidence for the federal peer review process of states' assessment systems. A basic tenant of current U.S. education policy is the alignment between what a test assesses and what content has been determined as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Alignment (Education)
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Xu, Xiaoqiu; Timpe-Laughlin, Veronika; Dugdale, Deborah M. – Educational Testing Service, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the appropriateness of using the "TOEFL Primary®" tests to evaluate the language abilities of students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) through an online-delivered curriculum, the VIPKid Major Course (MC). Data include student test scores on the TOEFL Primary Listening and Reading tests…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Attali, Yigal – Educational Testing Service, 2010
The principal aims of this study, a conceptual replication of an earlier investigation of the TOEFL[R] computer-based test, or TOEFL CBT, in Buenos Aires, Cairo, and Frankfurt, were to assess test takers' reported acceptance of the TOEFL Internet-based test, or TOEFL iBT[TM], and its associations with possible determinants of this acceptance and…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Questionnaires, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Kostin, Irene – Educational Testing Service, 2004
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between a set of item characteristics and the difficulty of TOEFL[R] dialogue items. Identifying characteristics that are related to item difficulty has the potential to improve the efficiency of the item-writing process The study employed 365 TOEFL dialogue items, which were coded on 49…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Difficulty Level, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Educational Testing Service, 2006
Innovations, ETS's corporate magazine, provides information on educational assessment for educators, school leaders, researchers and policymakers around the world. This issue on how classroom assessments in five U.S. states and several foreign countries expand educational opportunities for all students. Articles in this issue include: (1) Keeping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Periodicals, Educational Testing
