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The Development of an English Language Proficiency Test of Foreign Students, Using a Clozentropy Procedure. Final Report.

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Darnell, Donald K. – 1968

This final report presents a description of a test combining cloze procedure and an entropy analysis (CLOZENTROPY), designed to measure the compatibility of a foreign student's English with that of his peers who are native speakers of English. This test, and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were administered to 48 foreign students…

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Students

TOEFL and IELTS as Measures of Academic Reading Ability: An Exploratory Study.

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Buell, James G. – 1992

This paper discusses research conducted in the spring of 1991 that measured the relationship of reading subtest scores to teacher ratings of students' reading abilities. Sixty-eight advanced-level students in an intensive English program took an institutional version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and a specimen reading…

Descriptors: Advanced Students, Content Validity, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency