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Intercultural competence and assessment: perspectives from the INCA Project 481

Behavioral Intercultural Intercultural The Inter-
Assessment Readiness Adjustment Po- national
Scale for Check tential Scale Profiler
Intercultural (Van der Zee (Matsumoto et (World Work
Competence and Brinkmann al. 2001) Limited n.d.)
(‘BASIC’) 2 2002)
(Koester and
Olebe 1988)
C. The Intercultu- Sojourners from
‘Studies’ ral Readiness Japan (2001)
Check was
tested by com-
bining it with
another ques-
tionnaire, the
Multicultural
Personality
Questionnaire
(MPQ), which
assess five per-
sonality traits
(Cultural Em-
pathy, Openmin-
dedness, Flexi-
bility, Social
Initiative, Emo-
tional Stability).

The Council of Europe concept is that the ELP is a personal and portable record,
not intended for use for purposes of recruitment, diagnosis or assessment. The
pure intention is that the language learner should use the ELP as an entirely per-
sonal document, and as a means of reflecting on his/her language learning ex-
periences, achievements, goals and preferred learning styles, whenever and
wherever the individual’s learning takes place. The Council of Europe Common
European Framework, on which the ELP is based, lends itself to exploitation as
the basis for assessment and testing purposes, and since the ELP was first de-
veloped, parallel developments in the field of competence-based assessment
have produced other passports and portfolios (e.g., Europass, UK e-passport)
which are designed for wider application and are indeed used not only as a port-
able personal record of learning and achievement, but also as the basis for diag-
nostic testing, presentation of evidence for recruitment, and records held for
human resource management purposes, with sophisticated online tools allowing
different levels of privileged access to the record for the individual record
‘owner’ and for other interested parties. This pragmatic potential for the INCA
portfolio was taken into account.