Being the leader in its field, TDS^® is the end-product of efforts that utilized an academic infrastructure to build national software that would allow an online tool for quantification and assessment of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The questions in the TDS^® system have been prepared by selected question writer team who passed successfully the assessment and evaluation training provided by HG ACADEMY, and who are expert in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language in which they have professional work background in many universities that were pioneers of assessment and evaluation in teaching Turkish as a foreign language in Turkey.

The Curriculum of Online Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language in Turkey requires adaptation to the assessment-evaluation process since it is related to the teaching process. Based on this need, HG ACADEMY has prepared the TDS^® Assessment and Evaluation Guidelines Manual in line with the aforementioned programs, based on the Program for Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language of Turkish Ministry of National Education (MEB) and making use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). Thanks to this Guidelines Manual, every question writer in our team can prepare the same high quality and different questions within the same standards. To keep the quality standard of the questions always at the highest, a comprehensive Research and Development (R&D) study was conducted to achieve that goal. The exams prepared by the TDS^® expert team are submitted to the arbitration of academicians specialized in field of Turkish education, measurement and evaluation. Questions that are found appropriate by the arbitrator evaluation will also have to pass the approval of the editor in order to be considered and included in the examination system.

• The exam system beıng internet-based is held in computerized environment.
• Thanks to its comprehensive question-pool, the system allows the use of different questions in each exam session, hence ensuring maximum question and test security. In addition, new questions/tests are constantly added to the question pool of the system.
• Test questions are prepared by the defined team, supervised by experienced referees and then approved by an editor before being added to the question pool.
• In the exams, both automatic and human-based scoring is used in evaluating the exams. The reading and listening sections are automatically evaluated by the system. Manual evaluation is employed for evaluating writing and speaking sections. Answers given by each test participant are evaluated by two different persons at the relevant test center. Evaluators who manually evaluate the answers are not able to see who the answers belong to. The system automatically calculates the mean of the two evaluators. Validity and reliability is kept at a high level in evaluation process.
• Everything in TDS^® is systematic. Quantities, grades and assessment criteria of questions have been standardized.
• Four language skills can be easily assessed within a single session.

TDS^® exam system includes four different types of tests:

• Certification Exam
• Placement Test
• Level Completion Exams
• Practice (Mock) Exams

It is a Turkish proficiency exam that is requested by universities for the purpose of studying. There are 3 different certification exams at B1, B2 and C1 levels. The student applies for the degree he/she wants to get a certificate and takes the relevant exam.

* The content of the exam consists of 25 reading, 10 listening questions, 2 writing and 2 speaking tasks.

* Grammar skill is measured within other skill sections.

This exam, which allows students to measure their level in learning turkish, progresses with a stepped measurement system that includes questions from basic level to advanced level. After the students takes this exam, the level at which they should start their Turkish education is determined.

Our TDS^® exam system that is developed with a professional academic infrastructure prioritizes the application security of the exam:

• Due to the large question pool of the system, each exam has different questions, so each student encounters different questions than the other. In addition, the system's question pool is constantly updated.
• A unique single-use exam code is provided for the exam candidate.
• The identity of the exam candidate is checked before the exam, and 360 ​​degree view of exam environment is also checked. Private exam session is ensured for the exam candidate. The use of all personal belongings, materials and unacceptable equipment and items is prohibited. The candidate does not need to take regular notes on paper and use a pencil.
• The view and voice of exam candidate is monitored by proctor during the exam session. The exam candidate's entire exam session is recorded. The candidate is photographed before and during the exam and his/her photograph is shared with the relevant institutions when requested.
• Since the beginning of exam, only exam interface is displayed and the browser is prevented from opening other web pages.
• Exam evaluation is done by different instructors and the information of the exam candidates is kept confidential.
• The average of the exam scoring is calculated automatically by the system and its validity is kept high.
• All question numbers, question points, and evaluation criteria of the system are kept standardized.
• The authenticity of both the evaluation report and the certificate of the test result can be verified using the security number on the document on TDS^® website.

These are the exams applied to the students at the end of each language level during their Turkish learning course. It has been prepared for a total of five levels.

The exam candidate can easily register to the system through the relevant exam portal website. The candidate can participate in the test with the 'username' and 'password' created before the test. The exam candidate and the exam session can also be remotely monitored by the proctor during exam with video and audio recording.  For this purpose, a detailed ‘Instructions and Regulations for TDS^® Exam System Implementation booklet was prepared in seven different languages, Turkish, English, Persian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Russian and Arabic, in order to prepare the exam candidate to be aware of exam implementation procedure and comply with the relevant exam rules.

You can register at https://student.turkcedilsinavi.com/. After completing your personal account registration, you can apply for the exam and purchase an exam code from the same site according to the relevant exam date. Certificate exam dates can be found on our website or social media accounts. For your registration and application questions, you can send them to the e-mail address info@onlinetds.org.