TOEFL^® Young Students Series embedded in “Erasmus +” project

ETS, ETS Global and ETS Global’s partner - Goal Testing B.V. in cooperation with the a Foundation of K12 schools ‘OPO hof van Twente’ and other project partner schools from Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, have begun their two-year-journey designed to innovate the way English is taught in an academic environment and excel in Information and Communications technology (ICT) skills while doing so. The project is called iBUILD-IT  and is funded by Erasmus+ which is a part of a large European Union programme focused on facilitating educational innovation and exchange.

The project was conceived in response to the Covid-19 pandemic with an aim to deliver continuous, personalized solutions for English language teaching (ELT) and inspire high-quality guidance for every individual child, either at home, at school, or in any additional hybrid form of education. The project will leverage the TOEFL^® Young Students Series (YSS) to measure students’ proficiency regularly, monitor their progress and provide evidence of the effectiveness and efficiency of personalized learning. By offering independent assessment tools, teachers are free within the project’s learning framework to implement an appropriate methodology, curriculum material, and/or educational tools which they consider will contribute to their learners’ language development.

ETS makes a research team available to work together with the teachers involved in the project for two years to deliver successful research outputs linked to the project.

Goal Testing’s role is to supervise the administration of the TOEFL Primary^® and the TOEFL Junior^® tests to support the adaptive way that English will be taught in schools across the Netherlands, Finland, and Denmark.