This paper provides an overview of e-rater®, a state-of-the-art automated essay scoring system developed at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). E-rater is used as part of the operational scoring of two high-stakes graduate admissions programs: the GRE® General Test and the TOEFL iBT® assessments. E-rater is also used to provide score reporting and diagnostic feedback in Criterion SM , ETS’s ...

For the first time, this study combined models and principles of authentic assessment from two parallel fields of applied linguistics as well as general education to investigate the authenticity of the TOEFL iBT speaking module. The study consisted of two major parts, namely task analysis and task survey. Utilizing Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) definition of authenticity, the task analysis examin...

This research aimed to investigate the use of a jigsaw and educational game maximize reading skills sophomores. The researchers investigated 20 students find out combined influence enhance skills. researcher distributed questionnaires analyzed data by combining qualitative quantitative methods. Using methods, students’ attitudes towards three subjects observing, taking notes interviewing studen...

Abstract: English course institutions are one of the most sought after non-formal education places to learn and improve language skills, especially be able master TOEFL well. To choose a suitable institution, that is by visiting respective places. Of course, things like this take lot time, effort, money. For reason, decision support system needed can provide recommendations for best using TOPSI...

the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...

The internationalization of higher education in U.S. Colleges and Universities has raised issues concerning the performance of international students. Most of them speak English as a foreign language; therefore, this study is intended to analyze to which degree the level of English proficiency of an international student impacts his or her academic performance. This research is focused on the i...

Introduction In recent decades, large-scale English language proficiency testing and testing research have seen an increased interest in constructed-response essay-writing items (Aschbacher, 1991; Powers, Burstein, Chodorow, Fowles, & Kukich, 2001; Weigle, 2002). The TOEFL iBT, for example, includes two constructed-response writing tasks, one of which is an integrative task requiring the test-t...