Avant Assessment

Government

The Leader in Technology-based Language Assessments

Government agencies need easily accessible, inexpensive, and reliable language assessments that focus-in on their mission-driven needs. Avant Assessment designs and develops innovative tests to meet USG’s unique needs and specifications with efficiency and rapid, reliable results. Our Web- and server-based assessments save time, provide instantaneous reporting, and enable USG agencies to focus on their missions.

Our Approach

Avant Assessment takes a consultative approach to developing Web-based language assessments that help its Government clients achieve their language goals. After discovering the language assessment needs of our clients, we work closely with them to custom-design assessments that meet their specifications and provide the specific data they require. Validity, reliability, efficiency and economy drive our work.

Experience

DoDEA

Avant Assessment provides the STAMP test to DoDEA, the US DoD agency that educates the dependents of US military personnel around the world.

Oregon Department of Education (ODE)

Avant Assessment has worked in partnership with ODE to develop and deliver the nation’s only online four-skills English Language Proficiency Assessment, the Oregon ELPA. Fully compliant with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the ELPA has been successfully delivered to over 105,000 Limited English Proficient students throughout the state of Oregon.

STARTALK, The National Security Language Initiative

Avant Assessment provides the assessment component for STARTALK, a project of the US National Security Language Initiative, a multi-agency effort to expand foreign language education in under-taught critical languages by funding new and existing programs throughout students' learning careers, from kindergarten through university.

Partnerships

Avant Assessment's Web-based language assessments are now part of Transparent Language, Inc.'s CL-150 Technology Matrix for Critical Languages. Avant Assessment has partnered with Transparent Language, Inc. (TLI), to provide Avant Assessment' Web-based language, translation and interpretation testing, together with TLI's language learning software, to US Government agencies. Transparent Language provides language-learning software in over 100 languages to the consumer, education, government, and corporate markets. Avant Assessment is TLI's exclusive partner in providing Web-based language assessments to USG clients.

The NSLI Chinese Flagship program

In 2005, Avant Assessment’s partner at the University of Oregon, CASLS, was appointed by the National Security Education Program to oversee the Chinese K-16 Flagship Language program in Oregon, under the National Flagship Language Initiative. Avant administers, scores, and reports results from the STAMP test, the Web-based summative assessment that is a central element of the Oregon Chinese Flagship program.

Cross-platform compatibility

All of Avant Assesment’s tools are accessible on PC, Mac and Linux