Language Testing in Asia

Table 14 Estimated significant effects of home province on the actual NMET washback on English listening-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 26	Item 27	Item 28
Home province^a
Gansu	− 0.033^***	− 0.038^***	− 0.030^***
Gansu	(− 1.61)	(− 1.76)	(− 1.74)
Heilongjiang	− 0.059^***	− 0.055^***	− 0.064^***
Heilongjiang	(− 2.81)	(− 2.36)	(− 2.41)
Henan	− 0.041^***	− 0.033^***	− 0.038^***
Henan	(2.33)	(− 1.93)	(− 1.51)
Liaoning	− 0.040^***	− 0.041^***	− 0.053^***
Liaoning	(− 2.77)	(− 2.26)	(− 2.51)
Shanxi	− 0.048^***	− 0.040^***	− 0.030^***
Shanxi	(− 1.84)	(− 2.08)	(− 1.42)
Xinjiang	− 0.060^***	− 0.055^***	− 0.042^***
Xinjiang	(− 2.92)	(− 1.61)	(− 1.78)
NMET listening test: No^b	− 0.132^***	− 0.147^***	− 0.166^***
NMET listening test: No^b	(− 4.02)	(− 4.53)	(− 6.85)
Ctrl variables	Yes	Yes	Yes
N	20,062	20,062	20,062
R-squared	0.026	0.028	0.021

NOTE: *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001; t statistics in parentheses; ^a The omitted category is Guangdong province; ^b The omitted category is NMET listening test: Yes

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