TOEFL Care: Basic information on TOEFL®

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL®) board
In recognition of the fact that a large number of TOEFL examinees are potential graduate students, a cooperative arrangement for the operation of the program was entered into on July 1, 1973, by Educational Testing Service, the College Board, and the Graduate Record Examinations Board Under this arrangement, policies governing the TOEFL program are formulated by a board of 15 members Both the College Board and the GRE Board appoint three members to the TOEFL Board to represent the interests of their respective constituencies These six members select the remaining nine, who are identified with such groups as graduate schools of business, community colleges, foreign student advisers, teachers of English as a foreign language, nonprofit educational exchange agencies, and agencies of the federal government