ELST

Author: G. Janous, T. M. Ortner & E. Lick

English Language Skills Test

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Please note that this product can only be administered if you have a valid Vienna Test System administration software license for VTS online or a local VTS version 8.0.00 or higher.

Field of Application+

NEURO

TRAFFIC

SPORT

Staff & Management Assessments

Job & Career Placement

Safety & Security Assessment

Academic Testing

Detailed Description+

Tests knowledge of English in the areas of reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar.
This is an economical, multi-dimensional, adaptive test of English language skills. These skills are of ever-greater importance in our society. This test is therefore used in personnel selection and development in the fields of staff & management assessments, educational counseling (job & career placement) and academic testing.

Test forms+

S1: Standard form
S3: Adaptive standard form
S5: Screening form

Task+

The respondent works the tasks in multiple-choice format. Different subtests require the respondent to name synonyms, fill in the gaps in a text or answer questions about a particular text.

Dimensions+

Cognitive abilities

Languages+

English (USA)

French

German

Duration+

approx. 40 minutes if all subtests of test form S1 or S3 are presented and approx. 15 minutes if all subtests of test form S5 are presented.

Age+

Norms for ages 16+.

Test administration+

Controlled Mode

Proctored Mode

Open Mode

Products specifications

Languages	English (USA), French, German
Test information	adaptive <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="In adaptive tests the item difficulty adapts during the test to the respondent's ability. In these tests the number of items presented may also vary in at least one subtest or test form."></i>, wide norm spectrum <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="In tests with a wide norm spectrum the norms cover a wide age range (wider than ages 16-84), or multiple norm samples (at least two) are available."></i>, modular <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="A test is described as modular if the user can decide which scales or subtests are to be presented. "></i>, high level of test security <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="A test has a high level of test security if steps have been taken to prevent disclosure of the answers or answer scheme. Examples of such steps include prevention of unsupervised online testing, the provision of parallel test forms and the use of objective personality tests and adaptive tests."></i>, conforms to the Rasch-model <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="For a test that conforms to the Rasch model the validity of the Rasch model or a comparable probabilistic test theory model has been proved. This means that all the test's item groups have been proved to measure one dimension and to be fair for various sociodemographic groups (such as different age groups)."></i>
Dimensions	Cognitive abilities
Test type	Special Ability Tests