2007 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 91-97
At Niigata University, a new curriculum of English education was introduced in the fiscal year 2005. As a result, the TOEIC IP test was given to all first-year students. In this research, the relationship between the results of the TOEIC IP test and results of the National Center Test for University Entrance Examinations (NCUEE) and "Standard English" was examined. Results indicated that there was a .62 correlation between the total TOEIC score and marks of the NCUEE. There was also a .32 correlation between the total score of the TOEIC and marks of Standard English. Moreover, the correlation between Standard English and each skill (or total score) of TOEIC varied depending on the teacher and the class, which had been streamed according to students' achievement. A regression analysis in which the NCUEE score was the independent variable and the total TOEIC score was the dependent variable, indicated coefficients of determination of.85 for teacher and .81 for class. It is suggested that these results can be used for selecting classes in terms of the teacher's characteristics or students' achievement.
