TOEFL® Research
ETS and the TOEFL® Board support a research program to further knowledge in the field of language assessment and second language acquisition. The goals are to
- improve language assessments and related products
- assure that they meet professional standards
- develop the foundation for future services and products.
The TOEFL Committee of Examiners, language research specialists from the academic community, works closely with ETS on its program of research.
A wide assortment of reports and studies of interest to the English language learning community is available, including
Framework for Recent TOEFL Research- TOEFL iBT Research Series
- Research Reports
- Technical Reports
- Monographs
- Test and Score Data Summaries
- Repeater Analysis for TOEFL iBT
- Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Speech Using SpeechRater v1.0
- Mapping TOEFL to the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR)
- Reliability and Comparability of TOEFL iBT Scores
- The Researcher
- Validity Evidence Supporting the Interpretation and Use of TOEFL iBT Scores
Most of our recent research publications are available in PDF format. You can download these files free of charge and view them using Adobe Acrobat Reader. For copies of older TOEFL research publications, please contact the Research & Development division.
