Occasion to Implement an English Proficiency Test and Possibility to Pick Up Industrious Students: A Case Study in Japanese National University

The purpose of this note is to investigate when a placement test should be implemented and possibility to pick industrious students up at their entry. Using TOEIC score data collected in a Japanese national university, we estimate occasion when the students' score raise up and test difference of the score. We found two results in the following. First, scores of the industrious students raise up between in their freshman and sophomore dramatically. Ones between in their sophomore and junior raise up less than that of their youth. Second, at the students' entry, we cannot separate the industrious students. We conclude that solutions to improve students' English proficiency in their sophomore and upper should be considered.柴多一雄教授、大内和直教授定年退職記念号In Honour of Prof. Kazuo Shibata and Prof. Kazunao Ouch