Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017)

The Correlation between EFL PBT Paper Based TOEFL Prediction and Verbal Assessment Test Scores of Engineering Students

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Luh Ariyati, Lies Lestar
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Available Online October 2017.
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10.2991/soshec-17.2018.51How to use a DOI?
Keywords
EFL Score, PBT, VAT, SEM, interview
Abstract

An EFL Test, a English assessment PBT prediction is developed by ITS Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology Surabaya Centre for Languages and Cultures to measure the students English proficiency as a part of their graduation requirements. The test has caused the majority of students postpone their graduation. Many efforts have been carried out to improve the students score, but the results is not fully satisfying. To seek better ways to increase the students English competence in the future, a study on the correlation between Verbal Assessment Test VAT as indicator of intelligence and the increase of students EFL score test was carried out. The well known SILL questionairre developed by Oxford 1990 was employed to find the such correlation. The subjects of the study was students of 2012 batch from 5 different faculties in ITS. The analysis was conducted using structural equation modelling SEM statistcial method and combined with personal interview with 10 percent of the students representing the high, average, and low achievers. Result shows that the high achievers possess higher VAT scores than those of the average and low ones. Moreover, the high achievers answer the questionnaire better and with very little mistakes than the others

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Volume Title
Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-490-3
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/soshec-17.2018.51How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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