A Study of Relationship between an English Standardized Test and UTK English Achievement Test
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between scores obtained from the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and the UTK English Language Proficiency Test. Purposive sampling was applied to select a sample of 100 students from the Faculty of Liberal Arts. The data collection was conducted using two tests: the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and the UTK English Language Proficiency Test. The collected data were then analyzed using mean scores, percentages, and standard deviations. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to examine the relationship between the two tests. The analysis revealed that the TOEIC scores were positively correlated with those obtained from the UTK English Language Proficiency Test, with a correlation coefficient of 0.83 (p < 0.01), indicating a very strong positive correlation at the 0.01 significance level. The findings suggest that students who performed well on the TOEIC also tended to perform well on the UTK Test, confirming the validity of the UTK Test as a measure of English proficiency.
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