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Keywords Early Childhood teachers, readiness and involvement, online learning English vocabulary, Quizlet, students’ attitudes ICT, ICT literacy, TPACK, English teaching, generation Z Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ), Spiritual Quotient (SQ), Speaking Proficiency, Indonesian Adults. Speaking, Textbook, Content Feasibility causal-comparative cloze technique distance learning, early childhood, early childhood education teacher eleventh graders higher-order thinking intermediate listening junior high school language learning strategies, high achievers, low achievers online learning reading ability reading comprehension questions reading proficiency self-efficacy students’ perspectives writing self-efficacy young learners, speaking, role-play
Home > No 28 (2010) > Harjanto

Considerations in developing and using CAT to assess students' proficiency in English as a foreign language in Indonesia

Ignatius Harjanto, Davy Budiono

Abstract


The English curriculum for Secondary Schools in Indonesia
requires the students to acquire ability in accomplishing tasks adequately,
to find solutions, and to realize them in real situations. Such objectives
can be achieved if, among others, teachers are qualified. This means that
the graduates of teacher training colleges (TTCs) must be competent in
the field having knowledge and skills. In case of English education, they
must be proficient in the four English skills. To ensure their English
proficiency, a test administered institutionally, which varies from one
college to another, is not enough. A national test on English proficiency
to the graduating students of TTCs is needed so that a national standard
of proficiency for teachers can be measured. However, administering a
national English proficiency test is expensive and cumbersome as well. A
solution to the problem is the application of computer adaptive tests
(CAT). This article argues that CAT enables the students to measure their
own level of English proficiency inexpensively. Ideas on the rationale,
application, and impacts of standardized proficiency test using CAT on
students with learning English difficulties in regular schools are shared.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v0i28.638
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