Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between the TOEIC Bridge and TOEIC test scores, in particular, the extent to which the TOEIC Bridge test scores can predict the TOEIC test scores. The participants in this study were 292 non-English major students who took both the TOEIC Bridge and TOEIC tests in 2009. They were first-year students enrolled in a private university in Western Japan. Their scores on both tests were statistically examined using regression analysis. The results of the study showed that (1) the scores of the TOEIC Bridge and TOEIC tests were moderately correlated and (2) the TOEIC Bridge scores significantly predicted the TOEIC scores. Equations for estimating the TOEIC scores using the TOEIC Bridge scores were also specified, from which a comparison of the predicted TOEIC scores from the ETS study and the present study was constructed. The results of the comparison showed that the predicted scores from the two studies had similar intercepts and slopes for a certain range of TOEIC Bridge scores, but that the predicted scores diverged above this range.
