For years, students from around the world have needed two things to be admitted and enroll at American colleges: a visa and an acceptable TOEFL score.
The latter — the acronym stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language — is about as high stakes as a high stakes test can be. Colleges claim not […]
A number of years ago Educational Testing Services (ETS), the people responsible for the TOEFL test, brought the test into the computer age by transitioning it from a paper-based test to a computer-based test. This allowed them to stop the practice of previewing questions and answers while listening to material, and it allowed them to […]
For years, students from around the world have needed two things to be admitted and enroll at American colleges: a visa and an acceptable TOEFL score.Now TOEFL is also getting competition, and the competition has set off debates at American colleges over the best way to measure students’ English competency, the obligations of American colleges […]
Not that long ago, the division was clearer. Foreign students seeking admission to ‘Western’ universities took the TOEFL examination to give admissions officers a numerical rating of their English language skills if they planned to go to American universities, and those seeking admission to universities in the UK, Australia and often Canada took the IELTS […]