An Investigation into the predictive validity of the IELTS Test as an indicator of future academic success

By Patricia Dooey, R. Oliver. 2002

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Citations in the corpus

• Academic Success of International Postgraduate Education Students and the Role of English Proficiency (2006, background): “Studies into the predictive validity of IELTS have produced mixed results with some studies not finding any evidence that English proficiency as measured by IELTS predicts academic performance (e.g., Cotton & Conrow, 1998; Dooey & Oliver, 2002).”
• International Student Security and English Language Proficiency (2012, background): “Some studies find no statistically significant relationship, or a negative correlation, between IELTS and academic performance (for example, Dooey, 1999).”