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Published December 15, 2025 | Version v2
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Implementation proposal for language-aware assessments

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon Agence Nationale de la Recherche
  • 2. ROR icon University of Macerata
  • 3. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
  • 4. ROR icon Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
  • 5. ROR icon Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • 6. ROR icon Leiden University
  • 7. Research on Research Institute (RoRI)
  • 8. ROR icon Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
  • 9. ROR icon Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação
  • 10. ROR icon University of Algarve
  • 11. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • 12. ROR icon University of Edinburgh
  • 13. ROR icon FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
  • 14. Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems
  • 15. Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Description

Implementation proposal for language-aware assessments has been produced by the Working Group (WG) on Multilingualism and language biases in research assessment of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).

The proposal has been made available for community consultation by CoARA community. The working group has revised the proposal based on feedback from CoARA member organisations, CoARA national chapters and CoARA working groups, and from interested individuals. Final version of the proposal has been submitted for review and endorsement of the CoARA Steering-Board.

This document presents four proposals for the possible implementation of language-aware assessments, including concrete actions and steps to guide the implementation, and supporting annexes:

  • Proposal 1: Make multilingualism a value in research assessment
  • Proposal 2: Assess and improve language diversity, competences and practices
  • Proposal 3: Create expectations and criteria recognizing multilingual work
  • Proposal 4: Integrate multilingualism into assessment processes
  • Annexes to support implementation of language-aware assessment

Some of the Annexes are currently available, while others will be made available when finalized (check the status of Annexes below):

  I. Glossary of multilingualism for research assessment (not yet available)

 II. Multilingualism and language biases in research assessment: Landscape report (not yet available)

  • Literature review on multilingualism and language biases in research assessment (not yet available) 
  • Exploring multilingualism in research: A survey to researchers at the National Research Council of Italy (available)
  • English dominance and multilingualism in scholarly communication (not yet available)
  • Assessing institutional readiness for language-aware assessments: A focus group report (not yet available)

III. Supporting materials on language-aware assessments (not yet available)

IV. Checklist of multilingualism policies and initiatives (available)

 V. Questionnaire for assessing institutional readiness for language-aware assessments (not yet available)

VI. Questionnaire of multilingualism and language biases in research assessment (available)

 

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Is supplemented by
Publication: 10.5281/zenodo.17876612 (DOI)
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.15262952 (DOI)
Publication: 10.5281/zenodo.17512397 (DOI)