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1808
The baccalaureat introduced
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'
1900
College Entrance Examination Board set up
1904
Thorndike's 'Mental and Social Measurements'
1905
Cattell's 'Examinations, grades and credits'
1905
Binet's article in 'L'anne psychologique'
1908
Thorndike's handwriting test
1910
Thorndike's article 'Handwriting'
1912
Hilegas develops first standardized scale for assessing writing
1913
Maryland proposes aural/oral testing in Modern Languages
1913
CPE first set
1914
1st standardized test of general English ability developed by Courtis
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
1917
SSEC established
1917
Monroe, DeVoss, and Kelley's "Educational Tests and Measurements"
1918
SC and HSC established
1921
Burt's report to the London County Council
1924
Modern Foreign Language Study
1925
College Entrance Examination Board commisions construction of forerunner to SATs
1926
Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French project started
1926
Pressey's "A Simple Apparatus Which Gives Tests and Scores - and Teaches"
1927
American Association of Collegiate Registrars resolution on testing foreign students
1927
Smith & Wright's "Second Revision of the Bibliography of Educational Measurements"
1927
Bronner's "Manual of Individual Mental Tests and Testing"
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
2nd commission of CEEB presents outline for test of English ability of foreign students
1929
Henmon's study on testing
1930
Symond's 'Foreign Language Prognosis Test'
1930
Cooperative Test Service founded
1930
CPE has original literature paper for 1st time
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
1942
Iowa Tests of Educational Development introduced
1944
Brereton's 'The Case for Examinations'
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
1951
SC & HSC replaced with O and A levels
1953
Taylor produces the 1st cloze test
1953
Taylor introduces the cloze test
1957
FSI used for mandatory testing of Foreign Service personnel
1957
Joint Committee decide to set up Executive Committee
1958
Foundations laid for CSE
1959
Carroll & Sapon's "Modern Language Aptitude Test"
1960
Latin or Greek qualification dropped as entrance requirement to Cambridge University
1961
Washington conference
1961
Lado's "Language Testing"
1961
Experiments with mini-tests at ARELS
1962
ETS selected to administer the TOEFL
1962
SSEC dismantled
1963
MLA starts to look at alternative syllabus for FL o'level
1963
Otter's aural-oral test piloted
1963
MLA Cooperative Foreign Language Tests
1964
TOEFL first sat
1964
Davies starts to develop test battery for British Council
1964
AEB O Level set for 1st time without prose translation into foreign language
1964
2nd phase of Otter's pilot aural-oral tests
1964
BCC's FL tests first set
1964
JMB's Test in English developed
1965
3rd phase of Otter's aural-oral tests
1965
"A Vocabulary and Reading test for Students of English as a Second Language"
1966
Pimsleur's "Language Aptitude Battery"
1966
JMB trials a test based on MLA project
1966
Initial 'blueprint' of ARELS Oral exam
1966
JMB's Test in English (overseas) first sat
1967
Carroll & Sapon's "Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test"
1967
ARELS Diploma of Proficiency in Spoken English and Comprehension 1st set
1967
Pimsleur's Modern Foreign Language Proficiency Tests
1973
TOEFL Policy Council formed
1974
Working party on "English Tuition and Testing" meet.
1975
Major revision of UCLES exam syllabus
1976
P A Fabian serves as chairman of ARELS Examination Trust
1976
1st meeting of ELTS Test Development Committee
1976
Feasability study for RSA communicative English test
1977
JMB's TiE (Overseas) residence regulation raised to 5 years
1977
Pilot of ELTS test materials
1977
BC's English Language Division takes over development of ELTS's test.
1977
Six samples of "the linguistic-communicative needs of a range of potential students"
1978
ARELS Preliminary Exam 1st set
1978
"Specifications for an English Language Testing Service" published
1978
Initial package of ELTS test trialled in 34 centres
1979
Trials of TSE sat
1979
Further trials of ELTS test package in 35 centres worldwide
1979
Pilotting of RSA communicative English test
1979
Fijian national test norming project
1980
ELTS first set
1980
PET first set
1980
Carroll's 'Testing Communicative Performance'
1981
TSE first sat
1981
RSA Exam in the Communicative Use of EFL first sat
1981
4th Dunford Seminar
1982
Di frederico's 'Testing English for Academic Purposes'
1984
Davies & West's "Guide to English Language Examinations"
1986
TWE first sat
1986
Cripeer & Davies' validation study of ELTS
1987
Edinburgh validation study of ELTS
1988
UCLES takes over RSA
1988
First year of GCSE
1989
ELTS renamed IELTS
1989
IELTS first set
1994
Charge IELTS Subject Officer at UCLES
1995
2nd version of IELTS first set
2000
Read's ' Assessing vocabulary'
2001
CEFR published
2003
Trial A of CB IELTS