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Spolsky, B. (1995). Measured Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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68 events from this source recorded
1808
The baccalaureat introduced
1857
Call for Oxbridge school exams
1858
Oxford and Cambridge local exams for secondary school first given
1863
Cambridge Overseas Exams exams sat overseas for first time
1877
Latham's 'On the Action of Examinations'
1888
Edgeworth's 'The statistics of examinations'
1898
Kaeding's 'Haufigkeitsworterbauch der deutschen Sprache' published
1900
College Entrance Examination Board set up
1903
Thorndike's 'Heredity, Correlation and Sex Differences in School Ability'
1904
Thorndike's 'Mental and Social Measurements'
1905
Cattell's 'Examinations, grades and credits'
1905
Binet's article in 'L'anne psychologique'
1905
Carneige Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching founded
1910
Thorndike's article 'Handwriting'
1912
Thorndike's 'Education: a First Book'
1913
Maryland proposes aural/oral testing in Modern Languages
1913
CPE first set
1915
Yerkes et al's 'A Point Scale for Measuring Mental Ability'
1916
Stanford-Binet scale published
1917
Council of the American Psychological Society endorse Yerken's psychological testing of army recruits
1921
Burt's report to the London County Council
1924
Modern Foreign Language Study
1924
Immigration Act passed
1925
College Entrance Examination Board commisions construction of forerunner to SATs
1925
Roach becomes involved with CPE
1926
Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French project started
1927
American Association of Collegiate Registrars resolution on testing foreign students
1928
Wood's test for the Cooperative Test Service
1928
CEEB set up a commission to assess need for testing English ability of foreign students
1929
Coleman Report
1929
2nd commission of CEEB presents outline for test of English ability of foreign students
1930
Symond's 'Foreign Language Prognosis Test'
1931
1st Conference on Examinations held
1935
2nd Conference on Examinations held
1937
University of Cambridge recognises CPE as entrance qualification
1937
Kaulfers' article 'Objective tests and exercises in French pronunciation'
1938
3rd Conference on Examinations held
1938
Sammartino's Language Achievement Scale
1938
Buros' 1st 'Mental Measurements Yearbook'
1939
Cambridge Lower Certificate first sat
1940
Machines used for first time in reporting results for CEEB exams
1941
Buros' 2nd 'Mental Measurements Yearbook'
1941
Joint Committee on English Examinations established
1943
American Army's ASTP courses run
1944
Brereton's 'The Case for Examinations'
1944
Thorndike and Lorge's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words' published
1944
Agard et al's survey of ASTP begins
1944
Roach's paper on UCLES oral exams
1948
ETS established
1949
Buros' 3rd 'Mental Measurements Yearbook'
1950
GSL to be used as basis of Lower Cert
1957
FSI used for mandatory testing of Foreign Service personnel
1957
Joint Committee decide to set up Executive Committee
1961
Washington conference
1962
ETS selected to administer the TOEFL
1964
TOEFL first sat
1964
Davies starts to develop test battery for British Council
1973
TOEFL Policy Council formed
1975
Major revision of UCLES exam syllabus
1976
Wilkins' 'Notional Syllabuses' published
1978
Munby's 'Communicative Syllabus Design' published
1979
Trials of TSE sat
1980
ELTS first set
1980
PET first set
1981
TSE first sat
1986
TWE first sat
1986
Cripeer & Davies' validation study of ELTS
1988
UCLES takes over RSA
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