TOEFL ITP Assessments: Research

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The TOEFL ITP^® Assessment Series is backed by more than 50 years of research by world-renowned assessment and linguistic experts. As a leading on-site English-proficiency testing program, the TOEFL ITP tests are relied upon by more than 2,500 institutions in 50+ countries, with 800,000+ tests administered annually.

Test and Score Data Summaries

The TOEFL ITP^® Test and Score Data Summaries contain data on the performance of examinees who took a TOEFL ITP test between January and December of a calendar year.

CEFR Mapping Study

Mapping TOEFL ITP Scores Onto the Common European Framework of Reference

The purpose of this mapping study was to identify the minimum TOEFL ITP Level 1 test scores corresponding to 4 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

The table below presents the scaled cut scores for each section:

CEFR Levels	Total Cut Score	Listening Comprehension	Structure and Written Expression	Reading Comprehension
C1	627	64	64	63
B2	543	54	53	56
B1	460	47	43	48
A2	337	38	32	31

Find out more about TOEFL ITP – Level 1 Score Descriptors, TOEFL ITP – Level 2 Score Descriptors and TOEFL ITP Overall Performance Descriptors.

Award Your Students a Certificate That Recognizes Their Achievement

You can recognize your students' achievement in English-language proficiency with 3 levels of certificates awarded by the TOEFL ITP program. Each TOEFL ITP certificate corresponds to a CEFR level.

TOEFL ITP Certificate	CEFR Level
Gold	C1
Silver	B2
Bronze	B1

Reliability Study

Reliability is an important criterion to measure the quality of an assessment product. Tests with high reliability yield consistent scores across different test forms. Please refer to the TOEFL ITP^® Reliability Table for further details.

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