To assess the English language proficiency of non-native English speakers
Year started
2016
Duration
1 hour
Score / grade range
10–160
Score / grade validity
2 years
Countries / regions
International
Languages
English
Fee
$59
Scores / grades used by
Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, Stanford (Undergraduate Admissions), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Undergraduate Admissions), and around 5,000 other institutions
The Duolingo English Test is scored on a scale of 10–160, with scores above 120 considering the test taker to be proficient in English. The test costs less than
TOEFL or
IELTS.
Sample: TOEFL iBT data included 328 official score reports and 1,095 self-reported scores. IELTS Academic data included 1,643 official score reports and 4,420 self-reported scores[10]
Note: the above scores are provided by Duolingo, the company that creates the DET test.[10]
^Liao, Manqian; Attali, Yigal; von Davier, Alina A.; Lockwood, J. R. (July 13, 2022). Wiberg, Marie; Molenaar, Dylan; González, Jorge; Kim, Jee-Seon; Hwang, Heungsun (eds.). "Quality Assurance in Digital-First Assessments". Quantitative Psychology. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. 393. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 265–276.
doi:
10.1007/978-3-031-04572-1_20.
ISBN978-3-031-04572-1.
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McCarthy, Arya D.; Yancey, Kevin P.; Settles, Burr; Liao, Manqian; Egbert, Jesse; LaFlair, Geoff T. (2021). "Jump-Starting Item Parameters for Adaptive Language Tests". Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 883–899.
doi:10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.67.