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Download full textTavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work seeks to establish a comparison between two different and distant evaluation tools applied to the Dominican student population in order to measure the efficiency of our educational system in the recent years, one of them measured the quality of Dominican education in three areas (the PISA Test), whereas the other tested the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation, International Assessment
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Direct linkWu, Jessica R. W. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
The General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) is a 5-level, criterion-referenced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) testing system implemented in Taiwan to assess the general English proficiency of EFL learners. In 1999, with the aim of encouraging the general study of English and to result in beneficial washback effects on the teaching and…
Descriptors: Testing, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Shih, Chih-Min – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the washback effects of the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) on English teaching in two applied foreign language departments in Taiwan. One had prescribed its GEPT requirement to its day-division students whereas the other had not. Overall, the GEPT did not induce a high level of washback on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, College Instruction, Educational Policy
Chang, Mei-Mei – CALICO Journal, 2010
This study examined the effect of a self-monitoring strategy on EFL online learners' academic performance and motivational beliefs. A total of 90 college freshmen participated in the study, and instruments used in the study included two general English proficiency tests, a course-based reading comprehension test, and a modified version of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, College Freshmen
