INTERNATIONAL ONLINE MEETINGS ON THE COMPUTER ADAPTIVE LANGUAGE TESTING ACCORDING TO NATO STANAG 6001

April 28 and 30, 2021 the representatives from the NDUU demonstrated the developed program software for the conduct of the computer adaptive language testing (CALT) according to the NATO STANAG 6001 requirements during the international online meetings. The representatives from the PfP Consortium Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Working Group, and the experts from the Bureau for International Language Co-Ordination (BILC) participated in the meeting. Today, the CALT software and methods improvement measures and events are conducting in the framework of the International Scientific Project “Computer Adaptive Language Testing – CALT” under the umbrella of the NATO DEEP program.

The BILC experts and coordinators in particular Peggy Garza (the Chair of the English Language Programs Department at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Partner Language Training Center Europe (PLTCE) in Garmisch, Germany), Branka Petek (the BILC Secretary), Piotr Gawliczek (the Director of NATO DEEP e-Academy), Greta Keremidcheva (PfP Consortium ADL WG Chair), Anna Guncheva (Head of the Testing Team from G. S. Rakovski” National Defence College, Bolgaria) participated in the international event.

The representatives from the Foreign Languages Education and Research Centre in particular colonel Mykhailo Hrebeniuk (Scientific Project Lead), major Viktoriia Krykun (author of the concept), Nataliya Tarasenko (CALT SME) as well as  lieutenant colonel Maksym Tyshchenko (UKR CALT Coordinator), the Chief of the Scientific ADL Centre, demonstrated the possibilities and advantages of the developed CALT software and adaptive method from the perspective of a test-test-taker, test-developer and an administrator. The partners expressed their interest toward the CALT method and program software. Ukraine is the first country to give the international partners the opportunity to try and pilot CALT software. During the online event the participants exchanged their experience concerning the adaptive methods and CALT according to the NATO STANAG 6001 requirements as well as decided to continue to cooperate in this area.