Experimental Verification of the Effectiveness of Foreign Language Aptitude Assessment Methodology of Candidates to Ukrainian Higher Military Education Institutions of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
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https://doi.org/10.33445/psssj.2025.6.3.7Keywords:
experimental verification, Foreign Language Aptitude Assessment model, expert evaluation, Spearman correlation, tastesAbstract
The article presents the results of an experimental verification of the effectiveness of Foreign Language Aptitude Assessment (FLAA) methodology of candidates to Ukrainian higher military education institutions (HMEI) of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. The hypothesis, structure, and outcomes of the experiment are formulated; the content and tasks of the ascertaining and final stages of the study are analyzed, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The main part of the article describes the experimental procedure and its results, which involved the selection of participants from among applicants in small groups. The experimental study was conducted through a correlational comparison of the outcomes of FLAA administered on the Moodle platform using the author-developed test tasks, with expert evaluations of the candidates, as well as their academic performance based on modular assessment data. The results of the experiment confirmed that the proposed diagnostic assessment model is effective, and the methodology is characterized by high validity, reliability, and practicality: the indicators are stable over time, the level of correlation is nearly perfect, no statistically significant differences were found between mean values, and the distribution of differences does not indicate the presence of systematic error.
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