Paragon values collaborative research relationships with professional researchers and graduate students. Paragon Research Grants and Doctoral Student Research Grants provide financial support to cover the cost of data collection or analyses for researchers who wish to carry out original research projects related to one or more Paragon tests.

2018/9 Recipients:

Paragon Testing Enterprises is pleased to announce the recipients of research funding for 2018/9.

Paragon Research Grants

  • Heike Neumann (Concordia University): Examining the predictive validity of the CAEL CE and its relationship to students’ academic acculturation
  • Khaled Barkaoui (York University) & Ibtissem Knouzi (York University): Examining test-takers’ texts and writing processes when responding to CAEL CE academic unit A

Paragon Values collaborative research relationships with external researchers. Paragon Research Grants provide financial support to researchers who wish to carry out original research projects related to one or more Paragon tests. 

2017/8 Recipients:

Paragon Testing Enterprises is pleased to announce the recipients of research funding for 2017/8.

Paragon Research Grants

  • Kim McDonough (Concordia University) & Caroline Payant (Université du Québec à Montréal): The effect of planning on English L2 speakers’ integrated writing CAEL test performance
  • Vahid Aryadoust (Nanyang Technological University): Listeners’ reading strategies in part 3 of the listening section of CAEL CE: An eye-tracking study

Doctoral Student Research Grants

  • Roman Lesnov (Northern Arizona University): The role of content-rich visuals in the L2 academic listening assessment construct

Paragon Values collaborative research relationships with professional researchers and graduate students. Paragon Research Grants and Doctoral Student Research Grants provide financial support to cover the cost of data collection or analyses for researchers who wish to carry out original research projects related to one or more Paragon tests. Completed project reports will be published on the Paragon website as Paragon Working Papers.

I had taken other English language proficiency before, and CELPIP was more relatable to me. All of the questions were situations I was familiar with from daily life, and were like conversations I had experienced personally.
- Chrisna D., CELPIP Test Taker
When I took CELPIP, I found it was like speaking English in real life. You speak every day with your boss and with your friends, and the CELPIP Test represents those every-day, real-life language situations.
- Rafaela B., CELPIP Test Taker