by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO Please don’t spend too much time looking up the Chaos Management Skills Assessment. It is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive purpose of this informative series on good practice in skills assessments translation. We have collated events and features from several ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village At the recent ATP 2020 global event, a conference gone virtual, our CEO, Steve Dept, presented an innovative approach to test translation and test localisation. He introduced a diagnostic model for a “test travel agent”. Test items do not necessarily ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Edward Brooke-Hitching's The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature is hot off the Simon & Schuster Ltd press (published October 2020). In it the English author has put together an impressive collection of some of the strangest books ever ... Read more >
Why Translatability Assessment works for your Multilingual Tests Speaker – Marielle Lerner, Localization Specialist Recorded on Oct. 29, 2020| Duration: 25 Minutes Translatability Assessment, a method for optimizing source items for translation and adaptation, can be an integral step in the design of multilingual tests. The process helps raise awareness of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village While language change is not a new thing, says Chi Luu, a computational linguist and natural language processes (NLP) researcher, “it’s different in how fast and how virally it can spread now, as well as the impact it can have ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Does joy, by any other name, in another language, still taste as sweet, and fear still sting as bitter?" asks Marianna Pogosyan, Ph.D. lecturer in Cultural Psychology, in a recent article for Psychology Today. The article refers to a study ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In Emily Wilson's translations of the classics the Greek goddess Demeter has “cornrows in her hair”, Achilles is described as a “superhero”, and Odysseus, when disguised as an old, homeless man, carries a "tote bag"...(1) Wilson’s innovative approach to the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruption to schooling and it seems that it will be there for an undetermined period of time, at least pending availability of a vaccine. In the mean time online distance learning has become the ... Read more >
By Dr Thierry Rocher, Head Office for Student Assessment (DEPP), IEA Chair & Co-founding member of FLIP+ New technologies have undoubtedly taken a major role in the field of education, especially in this period of pandemic. We all see the vast opportunities offered by digital technology, but we are also ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The debate about the gender gap in STEM education has come back to the forefront recently with the nomination of Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer Doudna (USA), for the 2020 Nobel prize in Chemistry, and Andrea Gehz (USA) for Physics. ... Read more >