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

Language Testing in Asia

Table 15 Concordance frequencies for the open-ended survey question No. 39 (Top 10)

Concordance	Frequency	Group 1	Group 2
A mandatory listening test	774	✔
A mandatory speaking test	727	✔
One uniform nationwide NMET form	681		✔
One NMET form across all provincial areas	648		✔
All-round development of English ability	626	✔
A mandatory listening and speaking test	612	✔
Same requirements for all provincial area	587		✔
Conducive to filling inter-provincial gaps in the quality of senior high school English education	551		✔
Conducive to solving the problem of inter-provincial unfairness in college enrollment	535		✔
Educational equality for all NMET test takers regardless of their home province	460		✔