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Language Testing in Asia

Table 11 Estimated effects of home province on the actual 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 36

Item 37

Item 38

Home provincea

Beijing

0.008

0.069***

0.047***

(0.25)

(2.25)

(3.42)

Guangdong

0.036

0.074***

0.066***

(1.84)

(2.63)

(3.81)

Shanghai

0.008

0.052***

0.060***

(0.25)

(2.54)

(3.96)

Ctrl variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

N

20,062

20,062

20,062

R-squared

0.025

0.022

0.021

  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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