Avant Assessment
Kathrine Zahm is an experienced educational professional currently serving as an Instructional Design Quality Assurance Analyst at Orbis Education and a French Language Rater at Avant Assessment. Previously, Kathrine has held various roles including Webmaster & Editor for the South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, Curriculum Developer at Skyepack Inc., and a French Immersion Teacher & Curriculum Specialist at Midway Elementary School. In addition, Kathrine contributed to the South Carolina Department of Education as a Curriculum Developer & Product Designer, and started their career as a Teacher & Instructional Designer at LangO. Kathrine holds a Master of Education in Educational Technology from the University of Arkansas and a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education from the University of South Carolina.
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Avant Assessment
In today's connected world, language has never mattered more. To reach your destination, you first need to know where you are. Avant's assessments accurately and efficiently measure language skills and provide data and reporting that help to guide instruction, curriculum and learning. Avant creates web-based, age-appropriate language proficiency tests, language placement tests, and educator training tools that are: Real - We use only passages from the real world that students and adult learners live and communicate in. Scientific - Computer Adaptive Multi-Stage test design efficiently and accurately addresses the complexity of language to measure proficiency. Meaningful - The rich data generated is presented in easy-to-access reports that inform instruction, curriculum and learning. Avant's assessments measure proficiency in 32 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.