Predictive validity in the IELTS test: A study of the relationship between IELTS scores and students' subsequent academic performance

By M. Kerstjens, C. Nery. 2000

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Academic Success of International Postgraduate Education Students and the Role of English Proficiency (2006, background): “Kerstjens and Nery (2000) also identified sociocultural and psychosocial factors as contributing to academic outcomes in students’ first semester.”
The Predictive Validity of an ESL Placement Test (2007, background): “Although three of the most recent predictive studies in language testing used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather data from faculty or students or both (Cotton & Conrow, 1996; Kerstjens & Nery, 2000; Lynch et al., 1999), they failed to integrate findings from the different methods.”
Towards a Better Understanding of Academic Acculturation: Second Language Students in Canadian Universities (2008, background): “…English language tuition, degree of motivation and maturity, cultural adjustment, educational background, field of study, family pressures, etc.) that the validity of these studies comes into question (Alderson, Clapham, & Wall, 1995; Cotton & Conrow, 1998; Kerstjens & Nery, 2000; Solaiman, 1995).”