Serious_Fun
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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: Korean TOEFL crisis! |
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/14/asia/english.php
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The crisis erupted last year, when ETS changed testing methods. In September, partly in an effort to tighten security and discourage cheating, ETS switched to a new Internet-based test that would be given simultaneously throughout the region, about four times a month, and then discarded. Previously, the test was given as many as 50 times a month, as local demand warranted, from a bank of questions.
But the abrupt reduction in the number of times the test would be given meant that, from September to December 2006, only about 20,000 South Koreans could take the test. ETS had initially expected that it would be able to allocate 64,000 test slots for South Korea in all of 2007. This was so far below demand that, in April, the senior vice president of ETS, Paul Ramsey, told reporters in Seoul that another 70,000 slots would be created for Korea in 2007. |
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The Toefl crisis has prompted calls for South Korea to establish its own national English proficiency test. |
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