T.U.L.P.A. CERTIFICATION & QUALITY

The Language Center has implemented its own exclusive system of certification called T.U.L.P.A. (Todi Universal Language Proficiency Assessment), introduced in 2001 to assess language progress for learners of English and later extended in 2002 to other languages such as Italian, French, German and Spanish.



Since the introduction of our TULPA system of assessment we have been able to monitor carefully all our intensive and extensive programmes and therefore gauge the language progress achieved individually by each course participant. Through clear and reliable parameters of assessment we keep track of the duration and bulk course hours, number of participants, teaching environment, detailed data through our registration procedures (registration form and test) and so forth.

The Language Center’s long experience acquired over 15 years of professional training together with our concern for quality and results takes into account that there are those subjective factors which influence the progress achieved by a student.
All this information is collected and contributes to creating a reliable database where we can draw to offer the best training solution to suit our client’s needs and enables us to offer our clients customised solutions to cover specific language training needs in the most cost effective way. The success of our TLC programs mainly comes from our TULPA assessment system. The TULPA rates student’s ability on a scale of 0 to 1000, and corresponds to 9 levels of language competence as shown on our Table of Equivalence that come with the Final Course Certificate. This table also clearly compares our TULPA assessment rating to other recognized systems of evaluation used in Europe, such as (TOEFL, TOEIC, CAMBRIDGE), for Italian (CILS, CELI), for French (DELF/DALF), for German (GOETHE) and CERVANTES for Spanish. Therefore our TLC courses refer to common standards of assessment used by official examining boards and therefore we can offer adequate preparation for these examinations.

Our TULPA Progress is evaluated for all the languages mentioned, through the difference between TULPA IN, our initial comprehensive language assessment at the beginning of the course and TULPA OUT our final evaluation at the end of the course; below you will find our TULPA Progress average certified progress range taken from our database and regularly updated.
The table refers to progress achieved per modular units and it is possible to combine them; thus does not imply that these results are proportional or can be arithmetically summed.