German participants fare with the test for Business English world-wide best

(openPR) - the developer of Assessment instruments ETS publishes study over international TOEIC Testteilnehmer 2005

Berlin, 23 January 2007 - for the year 2005 the German test candidates with their result lie with the TOEIC test for Business English on place one in the Ranking of all examined countries. With the study „TOEIC report on test Takers Worldwide (2005) “analyzes ETS the profiles of all TOEIC Testkandidaten world-wide. The report is available free of charge on the web pages www.etseurope.org and www.toeic.eu.

World-wide the German test candidates obtained the highest result with on the average 776 points. Tendentious they are better in the hearing understanding (421) than in the read understanding (365). In Europe follow after Germany Romania (718), Spain (707) and France (692).
Altogether the European test participants of the study constituted only 9.3 per cent of the world-wide candidates. The average result of 688 points lies in the whole however more highly than for example with participants from other regions, like Africa (621), Asia without Japan and Korea (530) and South America (427).

The complete „TOEIC report on test Takers Worldwide (2005) “with detailed statistics, analyses and their graphic illustration is available free of charge on the web pages www.etseurope.org and www.toeic.eu. In this report also the question catalogs used for the data acquisition are contained. The reports of preceding years for the comparison of the development, for example the number of German test participants from 2004 to 2005 rose by 28,5 per cent, stands under www.ets.org.

Note to the study
The data basis the anonymous data of 1.266.950 form for that altogether 4.5 million graduates of the TOEIC test to education background, job experience, language's application and learning duration. The report does not only inform about it, of which ranges and social groups the candidates consist world-wide, but also which factors the English learning affects.

To consider is that the homeland of a test candidate is not necessarily also the country, in which the test was completed. To Germany it applies that 91 per cent of the test participants from Germany came. In other countries, like for example in Canada, the results of this study indicate not necessarily the English knowledge of an entire nation.

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Over ETS
ETS is one nonprofit institution with the goal of promoting the quality and Fairness of education by research and the development of reliable and valider Assessment instruments. ETS offers custom-made solutions for educational facilities, government authorities, enterprises and individuals. These solutions cover products and services within the ranges training capability, performance level determination, certifying, lehr and learning aid research and the consultation for the improvement of educational systems. Created Forschungsinstitut developed, and corrects today more administers 1947 as 24 million tests per year in more than 180 countries. ETS Europe makes the entrance to the products and services possible in Europe. More information under www.etseurope.org.

Over the TOEIC® test (TEST OF ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION™)
The TOEIC is an internationally recognized standard for the measurement of the English language level of non--native speakers in the business surrounding field. The test is available world-wide in approx. 60 countries. It measures the language authority of the candidates on the basis a remaining constant numeric scale of 10 to 990 points and not by a “passport or fail” - system. The different ability levels can be arranged in the common European reference framework (GER). The test is essentially used of government authorities, educational facilities and more than 5000 enterprises world-wide. More information under www.toeic.eu.

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