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The composition of the Board of Trustees of the Educational Testing Service changed in May. Dr. Earl Lewis (University of Michigan) no longer serves as Chair.  That position is now filled by Ms. LaVerne Srinivasan (formerly of the Carnegie Corporation of New York). Mr. Youngsik Chi (Elsevier, Inc) and Dr. Mildred Garcia (California State University) […]

Following the announcement that TOEFL Essentials was recognized by IRCC last year, I did my patriotic duty and filed an ATIP request to see what was up.  Eight months later I received 161 pages of very uninteresting emails about the test. A few things are worth noting, though: As reported, the test was accepted by […]

People often ask what accents appear in TOEFL’s new “Listen and Repeat” task.  Well, according to ETS you could hear sentences spoken with a North American, UK, Australia or New Zealand accent.  North American accents are most common, but you should be ready for all four.  And remember, all seven of the sentences will be […]

I know I promised to stop writing about stock prices, but IDP Education Ltd just plunged 20% after its shares were downgraded by Macquarie Group. They were trading at 2.08 AUD a moment ago. That’s down from a high of $38.88. The whole kit and caboodle is now valued at 610, 950, 000 AUD. Among […]

This winter, Routledge will publish “The Routledge Handbook of Digital Language Assessment.” Members of the Duolingo English Test team will contribute to the book.