Confiance & conformité

Confidentialité des données

Nous maintenons une Politique de Confidentialité des Produits qui explique nos pratiques de collecte, d'utilisation et de divulgation d'informations personnelles, ainsi que vos droits en relation avec vos informations personnelles. Certaines informations sélectionnées et en un coup d'œil sur nos pratiques de confidentialité pour nos clients institutions éducatives sont également incluses ci-dessous :

1. Propriété du District : Nous ne possédons pas les informations personnelles des élèves dont nous avons la charge. Nous restons sous le contrôle direct de l'institution éducative en ce qui concerne notre utilisation et notre maintenance de ces informations personnelles des élèves.
2. Notre utilisation des informations personnelles des étudiants : Nous utilisons les informations personnelles des étudiants dont nous avons la charge pour soutenir les objectifs éducatifs de nos clients. Nous n'utilisons pas les informations personnelles des étudiants à des fins publicitaires, y compris pour des fins de publicité ciblée.
3. Conservation des Données : Nous supprimons les informations personnelles des étudiants dans les 90 jours suivant l'expiration ou la résiliation du contrat. À tout moment, un client institution éducative peut demander à accéder, modifier ou supprimer les informations personnelles de leurs étudiants, et nous nous conformerons à ces demandes de manière opportune.
4. Élèves de moins de 13 ans : Nous respectons nos obligations en vertu de la loi sur la protection de la vie privée en ligne des enfants (COPPA). Lorsque nos clients, les établissements d'enseignement, choisissent de permettre aux élèves de moins de 13 ans d'utiliser nos produits, nous demandons à l'établissement d'enseignement de confirmer qu'ils sont autorisés à consentir à notre collecte des informations personnelles nécessaires des élèves de moins de 13 ans.
5. Protection des Données : Nous mettons en place et maintenons un programme de sécurité qui comprend des garanties administratives, techniques et physiques standard de l'industrie pour aider à protéger la confidentialité, l'intégrité et la disponibilité des données des étudiants dont nous avons la charge.

Pour plus d'informations sur nos pratiques en matière de confidentialité, veuillez consulter notre Politique de Confidentialité des Produits.

Utilisation Responsable de l'I.A.

How Does Avant Use A.I.?

From its founding in 2001, Avant’s philosophy has always been to combine the power of technology with human wisdom. We apply that same philosophy to the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) in our products and services. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality, fairness, and integrity. As part of that commitment, we have recently begun incorporating A.I. tools in select areas of our work — primarily within Mira, our subsidiary company’s language learning and formative assessment platform, within AvantProctor, to assist our human proctors by flagging potential test violations, and within our STAMP tests.

How does Avant use A.I. in STAMP scoring and test development?

In Avant STAMP, A.I. is currently only utilized in specific areas of test development and response scoring. These include assisting in the creation of some Reading and Listening passages, generating certain images, and scoring select responses. Currently, the automated scoring system is used only for rating a percentage of written responses in Avant STAMP 4S and 4Se Spanish, 4S French, 4S Mandarin Chinese, and 4S English. For spoken responses, 4S Spanish is currently the only language partially scored by the automated system.

Importantly, the performance of all A.I.-based tools used in STAMP is closely monitored by our Content Development and Research teams. In the case of the scoring of select responses, sophisticated statistical analyses are conducted to assess the performance of both our human raters and the A.I. tools. These A.I. tools are only deployed when they have been rigorously validated to ensure that they uphold the same standards of quality, consistency, and accuracy as human processes. In fact, for A.I.-scored responses, our in-house machine-learning models have been shown to match – and in some cases exceed – the already high accuracy and reliability of our human raters.

Do all writing and speaking responses for those languages get rated by A.I.?

Our system only rates responses whose proficiency level it can easily and confidently identify. Responses whose level is more difficult to determine or that may be outliers are passed to a human rater to rate.

What do you mean by “A.I.” when referring to the scoring system?

Our system is not powered by, connected to, or integrated with third-party generative A.I. platforms such as ChatGPT™ or Gemini™. Avant’s automated scoring system is a machine-learning model that was developed in-house and deployed for automated scoring on Avant’s cloud-based servers. Our automated scoring system goes through rigorous testing to ensure the accuracy of its outputs. It is not connected to or influenced by unknown or unreviewed data on the internet.

Is there a chance at Avant, that an entire STAMP test can be solely rated by A.I. with no human rater involved?

Because A.I. is not used in the scoring of Reading and Listening, there is a 0% chance of an entire STAMP test being scored by A.I.

While it is technically possible for all individual test taker responses in the Writing or Speaking sections to be rated by our automated system, it is highly unlikely due to the way our rating system works. For the languages for which Avant currently makes use of its proprietary, automated scoring system (see the list of languages above) for Writing or Speaking, a human rater is involved in scoring one or more individual responses at least 90% of the time, and often at a much higher percentage.

How does Avant mark/identify which responses have been rated by A.I.?

Our system tracks every response rated by every rater–human or automated. Our system is proprietary, and we are not at liberty to reveal whether a response was rated by a human or the automated system.

Are the scores given by A.I. checked by a human rater? If so, do the raters see the A.I. score beforehand?

We have always ensured that at least 20% of all individual responses, whether human-scored or auto-scored, are double-scored by human raters, as is standard among testing organizations. This means that 20% of the individual responses that the automated system rates are automatically also rated by a human. If there is a disagreement between the scores assigned by the human rater and the auto-scoring tool, then a human Rater Manager determines the final score.

Additionally, our rating quality assurance verification processes have always included regular monitoring by our research team. Should any rater, whether a human rater or the auto-scoring tool, demonstrate their rating to be any less accurate than our high standards require, they are retrained until they demonstrate the necessary improvements in accuracy.

No rater is allowed to view another rater’s scores unless they are a Rater Manager, which ensures that ratings are independent from one another and that no one rater’s assigned proficiency level is influenced by that of another rater. This includes the automated system. If there is a discrepancy between scores given by two different raters, it automatically goes to a human Rater Manager to review and make the final rating decision.

How often does a human rater alter an A.I.-given score?

As described above, no rater other than a Rater Manager is allowed to alter another’s score–whether human or not. See the answer above to what happens if there is a discrepancy.

Avant prides itself on maintaining the highest rating and accuracy standards, as evidenced by our published research. Those standards continue to guide our processes, and we stand by the accuracy of both our human and automated raters.

Nous considérons l'I.A. non pas comme un remplacement de l'expertise humaine, mais comme un outil qui l'améliore et la soutient. En combinant l'intuition humaine avec une I.A. soigneusement contrôlée, nous nous assurons que nos évaluations restent valides, fiables et dignes de confiance pour tous les candidats aux tests et les organisations qui se fient à nos données.