APTIS SCORING SYSTEM
KAREN DUNN
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Technical Report
Aptis Scoring System
Version 2.0
TR/2020/002
Karen Dunn
Assessment Research Group, British Council
ISSN 2057-7168
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BRITISH COUNCIL 2020
www.britishcouncil.org/aptis
APTIS SCORING SYSTEM
KAREN DUNN
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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
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2. REPORT SUMMARY
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3. OVERVIEW OF APTIS SCORE REPORTING
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3.1 Scores and levels for individual skill areas
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3.2 Overall CEFR level
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4. APTIS AND STANDARDS
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5. THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE
FOR LANGUAGES (CEFR)
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6. ALIGNING APTIS WITH THE CEFR
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6.1 CEFR levels and the Core component
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6.2 Comparability with other tests
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7. CEFR LEVEL ALLOCATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL SKILL AREAS
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8. CEFR LEVEL ALLOCATIONS REPRESENTING OVERALL L2 ENGLISH ABILITY
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8.1 Relationship between the overall CEFR and the overall numerical score
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9. INTERPRETING CEFR LEVELS AND NUMERICAL SCORES AWARDED
TO CANDIDATES
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9.1 Individual skill areas
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9.2 Overall English language performance
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REFERENCES
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APPENDIX: CEFR cut scores for main Aptis variants
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Cronbach’s Alpha mean values for major Aptis variants 2016–17
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Table 2: CEFR level coverage for major Aptis variants
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Table 3: Illustration of overall CEFR level calculation
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Table 4: Illustrative combinations of overall numerical score and
overall CEFR level allocations
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: The Aptis Core component feeds into CEFR level allocation for all four skill areas
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Figure 2: Illustration of the “grey area” in which candidate CEFR level allocation is
contingent on Core component performance
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