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Language Testing in Asia

Table 10 Estimated effects of home province on the importance of NMET washback on English writing-learning outcomes

From: The washback of the National Matriculation English Test on senior high school English learning outcomes: do test takers from different provinces think alike?

 

Dependent variable

 

Item 23

Item 24

Item 25

Home provincea

Beijing

0.008

0.045***

0.060***

(0.19)

(5.97)

(6.01)

Guangdong

0.006

0.071***

0.043***

(0.11)

(7.41)

(5.19)

Shanghai

0.005

0.063***

0.051***

(0.16)

(6.99)

(5.82)

Ctrl variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

N

20,062

20,062

20,062

R-squared

0.066

0.056

0.054

  1. NOTE: *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001; t statistics in parentheses; a The omitted category is Gansu province.
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