by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Holding my brush to write this letter, two streams of tears flow/ Of the thousands hardships I have suffered nobody knows" ... These words are written in a language called "Nüshu", which literally means "the script of women". Nüshu is ... Read more >
Translatability Assessment: How to Identify (and Resolve many) Translation Issues before They Occur Speakers: CEO Steve Dept and Localization Specialist Marielle Lerner Recorded Live on Sept. 30, 2020 | Duration: 45 min. A translatability assessment (TA) is a tried and tested method to optimize the master version of your assessment ... Read more >
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has to be credited with pioneering international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and with setting the bar very high in terms of methodology. The IEA also shares data and information with education stakeholders, policy-makers, researchers and field practitioners. In this spirit, the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village We are living in exceptional and challenging times: the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world dramatically, forcing a large number of industries to resume operations online. The conference ecosystem, in particular, has been severely disrupted by the pandemic. However, at ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village We will probably remember 2020 as the time when "distance education" exploded. But its history goes back at least three centuries, starting in the early 18th century with the first correspondance courses in Boston. September 15 marked "National Online Learning ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Finding the words for a world in crisis" was the theme for the 2020 International Translation Day poster design contest set up by FIT, the International Federation of Translators. The beautiful winning design, by Russian artist and translator Liza Gunenko, ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO Experienced psychometricians and test authors who writes good questions can be monolingual. It doesn't prevent them from doing a sterling job. As a matter of fact, Anglo-Saxon items writing practices have dominated the assessment universe for about half a century now, and psychologists who master ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The age of online communication has brought about a radical reinvention of punctuation, in ways that transgress the boundaries of what is commonly defined as "good grammar". This has sparked concerns about the future of formal language and become a ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Emoji have become an immensely popular form of online communication. The numbers about their use are staggering: it is estimated that more than 700 million are used every day on Facebook alone. Many consider emoji simply a way of adding ... Read more >
By Dr Satish Y. Deodhar, Professor, Economics - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Advanced technology permitting, entire world’s supply of food can be grown in a flower pot. The purport of this imagination is slowly coming true. With globalization, distances - physical, cultural, social, and technological are getting narrowed down ... Read more >