Confiança & Conformidade

Privacidade de Dados

Mantemos uma Política de Privacidade do Produto que explica nossas práticas de coleta, uso e divulgação de informações pessoais, bem como seus direitos em relação às suas informações pessoais. Algumas informações selecionadas e de fácil visualização sobre nossas práticas de privacidade para nossos clientes de instituições de educação também estão incluídas abaixo:

1. Propriedade do Distrito: Não possuímos as informações pessoais dos alunos sob nossa responsabilidade. Permanecemos sob o controle direto da instituição de ensino no que diz respeito ao nosso uso e manutenção dessas informações pessoais do aluno.
2. Nosso Uso das Informações Pessoais dos Estudantes: Usamos as informações pessoais dos estudantes sob nossa responsabilidade para apoiar os propósitos educacionais de nossos clientes. Não usamos as informações pessoais dos estudantes para nenhum propósito publicitário, incluindo publicidade direcionada.
3. Retenção de Dados: Nós deletamos as informações pessoais dos estudantes dentro de 90 dias após o vencimento ou término do contrato. A qualquer momento, um cliente instituição de ensino pode solicitar para acessar, alterar ou deletar as informações pessoais de seus alunos, e nós iremos cumprir tais solicitações de maneira oportuna.
4. Alunos com menos de 13 anos: Cumprimos nossas obrigações sob a Lei de Proteção à Privacidade Online para Crianças (COPPA). Quando nossos clientes instituições de ensino optam por permitir que alunos com menos de 13 anos usem nossos produtos, pedimos à instituição de ensino que afirme que estão autorizados a consentir com a nossa coleta das informações pessoais necessárias dos alunos com menos de 13 anos.
5. Proteção de Dados: Implementamos e mantemos um programa de segurança que inclui salvaguardas administrativas, técnicas e físicas padrão do setor para ajudar a proteger a confidencialidade, integridade e disponibilidade dos dados do aluno sob nossa responsabilidade.

Para mais informações sobre nossas práticas de privacidade, por favor, veja nossa Política de Privacidade do Produto.

Uso Responsável de 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.

Nós vemos a I.A. não como uma substituição para a expertise humana, mas como uma ferramenta que a aprimora e apoia. Ao combinar o discernimento humano com a I.A. cuidadosamente controlada, garantimos que nossas avaliações permaneçam válidas, confiáveis e dignas de confiança para todos os participantes do teste e as organizações que dependem dos nossos dados.