Validity and Fairness of TOEFL iBT Reading Test

Learner Strategies and Test-wiseness of the Intermediate and Advanced Iranian TOEFL ibt Test Takers

Good language learners slot in a repertoire of strategies and when language tests are at stake, test-taking strategies and test-wiseness pave pay to a prolific outcome. Among such tests, TOEFL iBT seems to be a prerequisite to academic success and a nightmare many Iranian students struggle with. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to raise awareness about the type of questions in iBT, b...

Is There Any Interaction Between Background Knowledge and Language Proficiency That Affects TOEFL iBT® Reading Performance?

Automated Subscores for TOEFL iBT Independent Essays

Construct validity in TOEFL iBT speaking tasks: Insights from natural language processing

This study explores the construct validity of speaking tasks included in the TOEFL iBT (e.g., integrated and independent speaking tasks). Specifically, advanced natural language processing (NLP) tools, MANOVA difference statistics, and discriminant function analyses (DFA) are used to assess the degree to which and in what ways responses to these tasks differ with regard to linguistic characteri...

students perception of computerized toefl test

تحقیق حاضر به بررسی درک دانشجویان از مزایا و معایب آزمون های کامپیوتری تافل و تاثیر جنسیت بر درک آنها پرداخته است. شرکت کنندگان در این تحقیق 100 نفرزبان آموز مرد و زن بودند که در آزمون کامپیوتری تافل در ایران شرکت کرده بودند. پرسشنامه یی که در مورد مزایا و معایب آزمون های کامپیوتری در مقایسه با آزمون های کاغذی توسط محقق تهیه شده بود جهت تکمیل به این افراد ارایه شد. داده های بدست آمده در این مطا...