1. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Presentation on Rater trainings The Austrian Armed Forces Approach STANAG 6001 Testing Conference 2013

2. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Mission of the AAF Language Institute To make the Austrian Armed Forces interoperable through language proficiency

3. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE AUSTRIAN ARMED FORCES LANGUAGE INSTITUTE ORGANISATION AND TASKS Department I: Planning, coordinating, supervising and supporting of language training and testing in the Armed Forces, Evaluation of language training, translation and interpretation, production, administration and provision of training materials und terminology (terminology data base), administration of external personnel, further and advanced training of the language personnel (internal and external) and handling of administration and equipment Departments II to IV: Language training and testing, translation and interpretation, selection and evaluation of instructors, interpreters and teaching material, didactic and methodological research, development of curricula, teaching and testing material, terminology research Department I (Central services) 3 Sections Department II (Germanic languages) 4 Sections Department III (Romance & other languages) 3 Sections Department IV (Slavonic languages) 3 Sections Head

4. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Department I (Central services) 3 Sections Department II (Germanic languages) 4 Sections Department III (Romance & other languages) 3 Sections Department IV (Slavonic languages) 3 Sections Head Section 3 (Testing, QM, Controlling) 4 Persons Co-ordination Monitoring Testing/Rating Administration Test production Evaluation Testing / Rating Test items Germanic Languages Slavonic & Balkan Languages Romance & other Languages Testing / Rating Test items Testing / Rating Test items

5. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Lifelong Cycle of Testers/Raters All language-related personnel of the AAFLngInst have to train, to test/ rate, to translate/interpret and to do terminology work Testing/Rating Calibration Testing/Rating Briefings on Testing/Rating Initial selection Certification Initial training

6. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Initial selection of personnel Procedure starts after application for a job as a language teacher at the AAFLngInst: 1.Written application 2.Presentation to the head and the other superiors 3. Teaching a demo lesson Assessment by a board 4. Free-lance contract or temporary employment 5. Employment Assessment

7. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Tester/Rater Training and Certification 1. Theoretical information starting after temporary employment 2. Monitoring of tests Head of the testing section Discussion and reflection 3. Member of a board Feedback and calibration 4. Certification as a tester

8. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Testing – Calibration - Briefings Testing as a single tester Rating within a board Testing/Rating during full test procedures Assessment Feedback Calibration Briefings Supervision Producing Items Certification as head of boards of examiners

9. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Testing for specific purposes Military pilots according to ICAO Military ATCs according to ICAOMilitary aviation technicians Military police personnelOfficers and NCOs

10. WE SHAPE THE FUTUREWIR BILDEN ZUKUNFT www.bundesheer.at SCHUTZ & HILFE Thank you for your attention!