NEAS Conference 2006

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Topics for Today

• What is TOEIC®?

• TOEIC Statistics

• Information on the NEW TOEIC test

What is TOEIC?

• Proficiency test for “General English”

• Designed in 1979

• No. 1 Test

– 5000 organisations

– 5.0 million test takers last year

• Japanese origin

• Pre-requisite for employment

Test Benefits

• Ease of use / Flexible testing options

• Good reliability

• Cost effective

• Multiple tests

• Strong correlations to Oral & Writing skills

• Listening Comprehension– 100 questions, audio cassette

• Photos, talks, conversations, questions– 45 mins

• Reading Comprehension– 100 questions, written format

• Incomplete sentences, error recognition, reading comprehension

– 75 mins

• Plus 30 mins General Admin– Allow 2.5 hours total time

Format of the TOEIC test

Testing Options

• 2 Types of Administration

– Open Test Centres – fixed test dates held at various locations

– Institutional Testing Centres – testing students enrolled in a learning course within an Authorised TOEIC Test Centre

Test Results

• All test takers receive:

– Score Report

• Separate Listening and Reading Scores

– Certificate of Achievement (optional)

• To show to potential employers

• To place in Portfolio

TOEIC® Statistics

Test Statistics Worldwide

• 9% increase in Institutional Testing

• 15% increase in Secure Testing

• Japan and Korea are still biggest market

• China, Mexico, Taiwan & Vietnam experienced

greatest growth rates 28% - 34%

Test StatisticsAustralia & New Zealand

• Rolling 12 month average to April 785

• 2004 – 786

• 2003 – 792

• Annual of approx: 9000 – 10,000 tests

• Open Testing – 15% of total volume

• 24% students seek Certificates

Australia & New Zealand

• 1st Quarter 2006– 2197 sat TOEIC in Australia and New Zealand

– 154 Test sessions were held

– 46 Test Sessions for NZ & 108 for Australia

– 31st March most popular test date in quarter

– Largest test session was 257 Candidates

– 88 Authorised Test Centres in Australia

– 53 Authorised Test Centres in NZ

– 9 Open Centres in Australia

– 8 Open Centres in NZ

NEWTOEIC®

• Redesigned TOEIC Listening and Reading sections will be launched this month in Japan

• New TOEIC Speaking and Writing components will be launched in December this year.

NEW TOEIC

• To align the test with current views of English Language Proficiency

• It must match the abilities being measured

• “More Authentic” is the concept

Why the Redesign?

• To provide useful proficiency information to test takers and score users

• To ensure ETS quality standards continue to be met

Why the Redesign?

• Some longer listening stimuli– Allows a broader measure of test-takers abilities

• Short conversations as sets– Fewer topics to process

– More questions per conversation

New Listening Test

• Reduced number of photographs– Allows more time for authentic tasks

• Varied Accents– Including US, British, Canadian & Australian

– 25% to each accent

– Reflects a more accurate array of spoken English in an international environment

New Listening Test

• Text-based sentence completion– Allows testing of context-related skills

• Some sets will use 2 interrelated passages– Requires connection of information across texts

– Tests authentic workplace skills

New Reading Test

• Some longer reading stimuli

–Allows a broader measure of test-takers abilities

• Removal of error-recognition items

New Reading Test

TOEIC & New TOEICListening Comparison

TOEIC New TOEIC

Listening Comprehension 100 items

Listening Comprehension100 items

Photographs: 20 questions Photographs: 10 questions

Question-Response: 30 questions Question-Response: 30 questions

Short Conversations: 30 questions 30 conversations with 1 question each

Conversations: 30 questions 10 conversations with 3 questions each

Short Talks: 20 questions Talks: 30 questions 10 talks with 3 questions each

TOEIC & New TOEICReading Comparison

TOEIC New TOEICReading Comprehension 100 items

Reading Comprehension100 items

Incomplete Sentences: 40 questions

Incomplete Sentences: 40 questions

Error Recognition: 20 questions

Text Completion: 12 questions; 3 reading texts with 4 questions each

Reading Comprehension: 40 questions

Single Passages: 28 questions; 7-10 reading texts with 2-5 questions each

Double Passages: 20 questions; 4 pairs of reading texts with 5 questions per pair

Quality Maintained

• Same Test Time: 2 hours– Listening 45 minutes

– Reading 75 minutes

• Paper & Pencil Administration will remain

• Same Score Range & Score Scale

• Same range of difficulty and number of Qu’s

Speaking & Writing Test

• The Speaking and Writing Test for TOEIC

will be launched in December 2006

• Complements the TOEIC Listening and

Reading

• Designed to assess everyday English and

workplace situations

Speaking & Writing Test

• Delivered by computer

• Scored using live ETS raters in the online

scoring network

• Includes real authentic tasks

TOEIC Speaking Test

• Test time approx. 30 mins

• Targets a range of proficiency levels

• Measures a range of skills including

pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar,

fluency, and extended discourse

TOEIC Writing Test

• Test time approx. 50 mins

• Targets a range of proficiency levels

• Measures a range of skills including

vocabulary, grammar, coherence, and

organisation, from sentence level to passage

level.

Questions

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