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FACTORS RELEVANT TO THE ELTS EVALUATION Background Planning/policy (including the ethical) factors

المؤلف:  Alan Davies

المصدر:  An Introduction to Applied Linguistics

الجزء والصفحة:  P81-C4

2026-07-25

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FACTORS RELEVANT TO THE ELTS EVALUATION

Background

Planning/policy (including the ethical) factors

A number of issues to do with planning and policy have already been mentioned and will not be repeated. But there is an additional aspect which was emphasized in the evaluation, and that was the need to plan the integration of the proficiency test with the universities’ remedial programs, so as to ensure that those false positives who were admitted would be given proper attention. The evaluation of ELTS made clear that a one-off proficiency test, often administered months before a student arrived in the UK, was unsatisfactory and what was necessary was an integrated program of assessment and teaching, the assessment becoming increasingly diagnostic so as to inform the remedial programs. This type of integrated program required resources and these it was difficult to argue for in a climate of reduced resources.

Here there was also the ethical factor to consider in that overseas students who were increasingly being charged larger and larger direct fees for tuition were not necessarily being given the kind of English support (including assessment) they could properly expect to receive. From the point of view of assessment, it has been interesting to observe how those involved in this field have in recent years become more and more concerned about the ethics of their activity.