2. Home & News

  3. ETS Tests

  4. Information
    for Students

  5. ➡Information
    for Schools

  6. Business & Corporate

  7. ETS International


 
Clear Skill Level An institutional TOEIC or TOEFL ITP result can also be shown in your graduating student’s results. In many countries this helps clarify the English proficiency the student has attained.


Institutional Testing for English Schools

TOEIC Tests are designed for high-stakes decisions, but are also used very effectively in school settings, administered by the school itself. These and the TOEFL Institutional Tests should not be used in isolation, but as one of several types of in-house assessments.

Adding an external test simplifies your creation of part of your assessment, and offers an objective, validated test that can also be used for teacher and school self-assessment and quality comparison through international standards.

Using an external test has advantages and disadvantages, as does each of the different types of assessments.

A school’s overall assessment should contain multiple assessment types, each well designed and validated, to take advantage of the strengths of each assessment type. A good understanding of student abilities can significantly improve learning.

       

(Speaking & Writing also available)


Weakness of Multiple Choice: A multiple choice test can not measure creativity, may be ‘guessed’ and can encourage teaching facts. They don’t assess how a candidate constructs their own verbal and written responses.

Strength of Multiple Choice: A multiple choice test uses an objective scoring method, is efficient to administer, and samples a broad range of skills in a limited time.


Linking Classroom Assessment ... with Student Learning ETS presents a PDF overview of how to create high quality in-house assessments to meet a variety of goals. Create your own test 
Creating_a_Test.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
Benefits of using TOEIC or TOEFL ITP as part of your assessment:

  1. -validated at the item level and test level, with parallel forms

  2. -50 years of experience making English tests

  3. -allows objective school self-assessment

  4. -testing standards, provides benchmarks

  5. -forms are created, scored and maintained by provider

  6. -marketing gain
    (prospective students who see a test they recognise)


We encourage schools to take advantage of their teachers’ assessment skills while also using objective measurements of student capability. Use all assessments well.

TOEFL ITP  +  Internal tests

        =  Validated & benchmarked  +  customised, teacher-centric assessment

        =  Objective measure of part of the student skill
                                                         +  subjective measure of overall skill