The world hasn’t ever seen or experienced anything like the current development of AI: rapid, transformative, multifaceted and unpredictable. In such conditions, executives, leaders and managers of language testing organisations are expected to introduce and execute AI solutions that are in line with core assessment principles: validity, reliability, and fairness. 
Their decisions have real consequences. They shape access to education, employment, and even migration opportunities.

This Consultancy is designed to provide responsible leaders with knowledge, insights and tools that allow them plan, introduce and integrate a sound and reliable AI strategy for language testing organisations.

This Consultancy service has been created as a response to the questions and inquiries that ALTE has received in the past three years with regard to AI and how it’s changing the landscape of language testing.  Despite having the tools, knowledge and skills, we found that many organisations has a lack of clear strategy, not knowing which direction they should choose, and which elements of AI they should use. 

Each consultancy will be tailored to the needs of a particular organisation, and a comprehensive programme will consist of the following: 

1. Audit and situational analysis:

   • A thorough review of existing test processes and an honest risk assessment

   • An analysis of existing (and hidden) current uses of AI in the organisation.

2. Awareness and realignment:

   • Dismantling misconceptions about AI

   • Align on expectations and possibilities that AI offers 

3. AI strategy plan:

   • Define ambitions, priorities and the non-negotiable quality boundaries 

   • Build your own AI tools or use the existing ones on the market 

4. Piloting, implementation & workflow integration:

   • This is the hands-on phase where the strategy is put to the test.

5. Validation, Monitoring and Governance

   • Creation of a lasting framework for the strategy. 

6. On-demand check-ups.
   
   

Why ALTE?

ALTE has been keeping a close eye on the developments of AI and its meaning for the language testing landscape for many years. Through ALTE courses, consultancies and also at ALTE conferences, we have witnessed how developments in AI affect and re-shape the language testing world, but we have also noticed that a lack of clear and structured strategy is a predominant problem.  Participants on our courses receive the knowledge and skills, but the lack of strategy often makes it impossible to implement what they learned.
Our combined academic and practical, hands-on knowledge is a unique feature in the rapidly changing and forever growing space of AI.      

To request this consultancy please contact: servicesunit@alte.org