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The early beginning
Testing started with The Keju. The examination of the imperial officials and military officers to serve the impire in China. -
Mar 23, 1500
Testing moves to Europe
Testing comes to France and Prussia. The governing elite in Britain has its own interpretation of testing. -
A more formal testing
Britain took testing seriously. They needed to select people according to their capability -
Mass education-Mass assessment
These terms were introduced by both Britain and the United States. -
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Testing as an industry
The united Kingdom and The United States begin to introduce developments in testing. On the one hand, the UK witnesses the beginning of standardized tests like: (CPE) Cambridge proficiency Examination. On the other hand, in the USA Thorndike and others tried to standardized students´ written performance. The first Multiple-choice question was published by Kelly in 1915. -
Testing English as a foreign language
Standardization continues growing in the USA and (TOEFL) Test of English ass a Foreign Language comes to life. -
The evolution of testing industry
With CPE as a reference, both, the UK and the USA began to upgrade their tests to cover a larger range of people and to direct the tests into the examination of specific groups of people. -
Changes - from classical testing to psychometric testing
Testing reinforces its position as a big bussines. Elements of the U.S. assessment philosophy are introduced to language tsting worldwide by Bachman. There is a shift from a classical to a pyschometric view of testing in Europe. -
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Fragmention of the language testing
The evolution of the language testing has led the industry towards the covering of specific groups in their specific environments.