Validity and reliability
How PTE tasks are designed, trialled and analysed, and how scores relate to real-world performance.
Research
Research library
Published research on test validity, fairness and automated scoring, so you can see the evidence behind every score.
Read about scoring- Peer-reviewed validity and fairness studies
- Transparent automated scoring research
- Concordance with CEFR and the GSE
Validity and reliability
Peer-reviewed studies document how PTE tasks are designed, trialled and analysed, and how scores relate to real-world academic and workplace performance.
Automated scoring
Our scoring engine is trained and validated against large samples of human-marked responses, and continuously monitored for accuracy, drift and bias across accents and first languages.
Score comparison
Concordance research maps PTE scores to the CEFR, the Global Scale of English and other major English tests to help institutions set fair requirements.
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Automated scoring
How the scoring engine is trained, validated and monitored for accuracy and bias.
Score comparison
Concordance research mapping PTE scores to the CEFR, the GSE and other major English tests.
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