Abstract This study reviews the French examination of College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), most influential and highest-stakes test in Korea. The CSAT score has considerable influence on university admissions, admission to a highly ranked is generally prerequisite for socioeconomic success. From this perspective, significance enormous. In general, assessment influenced by goals content curri...

views in language testing on validity, and language testers have come to accept that there is no one single answer to the question ‘What does our test measure?’ or ‘Does this test measure what it is supposed to measure?’. Messick argues that the question should be rephrased along the lines of: ‘What is the evidence that supports particular interpretations and uses of scores on this test?’.Valid...

This research study explores teacher and student perceptions to verify consequential validity the potential washback effect of a locally developed university-level English language proficiency test which consists reading listening-to-writing assessment tasks. The integrated is used upon completion preparatory program in Turkish context determine learners’ access further medium academic courses ...

The present study was an attempt to explore the ‘washback effect’ of task-based assessment (TBLA) on EFL Iranian learners’ pragmatic development. To this end, through conducting KET (Key English Test), 60 out of 120 EFL Iranian learners studying in an English language school, were randomly selected. They were assigned to treatment group (N=30), and control group (N=30). The treatment group was ...