A meta-analysis on the predictive validity of English language proficiency assessments for college admissions

Autor:	Samuel Dale Ihlenfeldt, Joseph A. Rios
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Language and Linguistics
Zdroj:	Language Testing. 40:276-299
ISSN:	1477-0946 0265-5322
DOI:	10.1177/02655322221112364
Popis:	For institutions where English is the primary language of instruction, English assessments for admissions such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and International English Language Testing System (IELTS) give admissions decision-makers a sense of a student’s skills in academic English. Despite this explicit purpose, these exams have also been used for the practice of predicting academic success. In this study, we meta-analytically synthesized 132 effect sizes from 32 studies containing validity evidence of academic English assessments to determine whether different assessments (a) predicted academic success (as measured by grade point average [GPA]) and (b) did so comparably. Overall, assessments had a weak positive correlation with academic achievement ( r = .231, p
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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