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Scales / Measurement College & University Education Practice-Oriented Short Workshop

Developing an Online EFL Reading Proficiency Test

Sun, Nov 14, 10:45-11:10 Asia/Tokyo

Location: Room 18

This presentation will discuss the development and use of a short, web-based lexical discrimination, phonological and orthographic skill, and vocabulary test to help a university English department assign students into levels and identify students with potential reading weaknesses. Practical and theoretical issues will be discussed, and the correlation of various parts of the test to the TOEFL ITP test and student course performance will be reported.