Open AccessEXAMINEES' ATTITUDES ABOUT THE TOEFL‐CBT, POSSIBLE DETERMINANTS, AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH TEST PERFORMANCE
Author(s) -
Stricker Lawrence J.,
Wilder Gita Z.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2001.tb01843.x
Subject(s) - test of english as a foreign language , test (biology) , psychology , test anxiety , anxiety , clinical psychology , mathematics education , english language , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
The principal aim of this study was to assess examinees' acceptance of the TOEFL‐CBT, and its associations with possible determinants of this acceptance and with test performance. A secondary goal was to evaluate differences in the pattern of results for examinees from different countries. A questionnaire concerning attitudes about the test, familiarity with computers, and other relevant variables was administered to TOEFL‐CBT examinees at large testing centers in Buenos Aires, Cairo, and Frankfurt. Attitudes about the TOEFL‐CBT were moderately positive and had similar patterns of relationships in the three countries: slight or moderate with test performance, moderate with attitudes about admissions tests in general, slight with computer anxiety and test anxiety, and minimal with other variables.