The SELF (Formative Language Assessment System) platform was designed from the outset with the aim of designing and offering different test formats (adaptive or linear for example), and to be able to store user traces to better understand their behaviour during evaluation, and advance research in this area.
The assessment of language skills is one of the major difficulties raised by training professionals in universities:
the closed, decontextualized nature of the language tests available, which are neither integrated nor linked with learning or remediation pathways;
the opacity or absence of a necessary content validation process, with the aim of producing a fair and useful test;
the absence of traces and feedback that can be used to build a learner profile throughout a continuing education program;
the summary nature of the results provided to test-taking students and tutors, hindering the process of (self-)regulation.
We therefore used these findings as a basis for proposing the design and implementation of an integrated guidance approach, national usefulness, which allows for a reliable assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the learner and facilitates the formation of level groups.
Period 2012 – 2014
- A 3-year collaboration is signed with the University of Bologna in Italy for the scientific design of SELF Innovalangues, Language Assessment System with formative purpose.
- Piloting of the SELF Italian, English and Mandarin.
- The SELF Innovalangues teams organise psychometric training courses by the CIEP (International Centre for Pedagogical Studies).
Period 2015 – 2017
- Pre-test of the SELF Italian and English.
- Agreement for SELF experimentation with a local partner - the IUT2 Grenoble - is signed.
- The SELF Japanese and SELF Spanish teams are formed.
- The first version of the Italian and English SELF is assembled.
- The first national SELF English and Italian SELF are being passed.
- ADCUEFE finances a team to pilot tasks in FLE in coordination with the CUEF (Centres Universitaires d'Études Françaises).
- The first SELF convention with a national partner: the University of Picardy Jules Verne.
- The LANSAD (Languages for Specialists of Other Disciplines) in Grenoble exceeds 1000 SELF positions.
- The CRL (Language Resource Centres) of the University of the French Riviera exceed 1000 SELF positions.
- Collaboration agreement between Innovalangues and ADCUEFE.
- The first SELF Mandarin passes on the national perimeter are held.
- SELF is breaking the 20,000 mark at local and national levels.
- A first computer order was placed to the Grenoble company Kibatic to audit the code of SELF.
- The first placements of the SELF Japanese on the national perimeter are taking place.
- The SELF Innovalangues teams organize psychometric training by the Dutch institute Cito International.
- A convention with the Rectorat of Grenoble is signed to strengthen the SELF Spanish team.
- The first SELF FLE placements on the national perimeter of ADCUEFE are taking place.
Period 2018 – 2020
- The first SELF Spanish placements on the national perimeter are taking place.
- The first external development service SELF is commissioned to the company Kibatic in Grenoble.
- Piloting the Japanese SELF.
- SELF has reached the 50,000 mark of local and national placements.
- The first SELF FLE placements on the national perimeter of Innovalangues take place.
- The SELF GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance plan is underway.
- SELF is now over 100,000 local and national placements.
- The SELF 2020 business model managed by Floralis, a subsidiary of the UGA in charge of promoting research, is officially launched.
Period 2021 – 2023
- SELF is now over 200,000 local and national placements.
- New versions of the SELF English test are being deployed in all partner institutions.
- SELF German officially starts its design.
Published on January 8, 2025 Updated on January 8, 2025
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