Pearson is one of five test providers the immigration department uses to assess English competency for visa purposes.
This study aimed to assess English GPs' self-reported interactions with, and attitudes towards, their local smoking cessation services.
Nine out of 19 (47 %) of the business informants contended that the English certificates help to assess English proficiency.
The study shows a great deal of variability amongst markers, in their actual scores as well as in the criteria they use to assess English essays.
Consider a questionnaire that is meant to assess English language comprehension (the "ability"), by presenting subjects with a series of yes/no questions (the "items").
As is stated in the TEM test syllabus (2004), TEM has been designed to assess English language proficiency of undergraduate English majors to determine whether test takers have met the learning requirements specified in the teaching syllabus.
Additional research with a larger sample is needed to better understand how raters with varied teaching and scoring experience and from different socio-cultural backgrounds assess English essay writing.
This seems appropriate for a test that purports to assess English at a high level of proficiency, whereas a greater emphasis on items of narrow and very narrow scope would be appropriate on tests targeting lower proficiency levels.
The Task-Specific Scales were developed to assess English teachers' classroom language use when dealing with tasks which they are likely to be familiar with in the Japanese EFL classroom context.
