“Double Bottom” of Intercultural competence: Evaluation by means of electronic educational platform of a Federal University

Abstract

The article presents the experience of assessing multicultural competence of students, teachers, and trainers who participate in the intercultural educational platform in Siberian Federal University. This platform created within the project Tempus ALLMEET. The authors reveal a method of assessing multicultural competence and experience of use it. The method involves the study of superficial (verbal) and latent (unarticulated) layer of consciousness of the respondents. For data analysis the authors use the methods of descriptive statistics, index and factor analysis. This approach reveals a mismatch between declared (socially predetermined) and the actual attitude of respondents to other nationalities and cultures. The authors present and discuss the main results that were obtained during the researches.