Some organizations use the TOEIC to measure progress in English training programs and as a placement test.

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You've got ideas that are showing concrete results in improvement, not in absolute test scores, but in the progress that that school is making, we're going to fund those improvements.

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Math game developer Sokikon, for example, references U.S. Department of Education-funded research correlating its games to progress in test scores and motivation to learn math (up to 15% improvement in one Arizona classroom).

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The researchers didn't test whether echinacea alleviates colds already in progress.

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