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Language Testing in Asia

Table 12 Estimated effects of home province on the actual NMET washback on English reading-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 33

Item 34

Item 35

Home provincea

Beijing

0.039

0.203***

0.009

(0.86)

(8.34)

(0.47)

Guangdong

0.050

0.155***

0.002

(0.78)

(6.25)

(0.06)

Shanghai

0.024

0.315***

0.048

(0.81)

(9.81)

(1.51)

Control variablesc

Yes

Yes

Yes

N

20,062

20,062

20,062

R-squared

0.058

0.057

0.052

  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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