An exploration of students’ voices on the English graduation benchmark policy across Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam

Language Testing in Asia

Table 5 Tests of between-subjects effects. p < 0.01, p < 0.05, p < 0.1

Source	Dependent variable	Sum of squares	Mean square	F	Sig.	Partial η²
Proficiency	Factor 1	4.753	2.376	2.497	0.082*	0.001
	Factor 2	90.251	45.125	39.607	0.000***	0.022
	Factor 3	11.514	5.757	5.518	0.004***	0.003
Region × proficiency	Factor 1	16.462	4.116	4.325	0.002***	0.005
	Factor 2	44.030	11.008	9.661	0.000***	0.011
	Factor 3	29.830	7.458	7.149	0.000***	0.004