A Comparability Study on SNUCREPT and TOEIC

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate the extent to which TOEIC is valid and is comparable to SNUCREPT. The data of the two tests results were obtained from approximately 300 subjects who are considered to represent the target test-takers of TOEIC and SNUCREPT. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the test results indicate some of the validity problems with TOEIC in the content and the test method facets. The content and the factor analyses also reveal that the two tests are not comparable to each other due to the significant discrepancy between the Parts Ⅰ, Ⅴ, Ⅵ, Ⅶ of TOEIC and the counterparts of SNUCREPT in terms of the content topic and the test methods.