In the words of cApStAn’s founding partner, Steve Dept – The irrigation system in the olive groves and gardens on the hills surrounding the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, as well as the fountains, pools and baths in the Alhambra itself are a testimony to the engineering skills of Muslims in the Golden Age of Islam: …

“ITC Granada, the magical setting of the best conference in years | July 2024 | Spain”

In the words of our Managing Founder, Steve Dept: They flew in from A Coruña, from Antibes, from Budapest, from Corfu, from Dublin, from Istanbul, from Philadelphia, from Warsaw and from Zagreb to join the team already in Brussels. Twenty-five linguists, translation technologists and cApStAn teamsters. Aged 25 to 66, eighteen nationalities. We took a …

“Excellence among Friends | The Hague, Netherlands | 11th – 13th June | 2024”

At the International Test Commission’s (ITC) biennial conference, in Granada, ITC President-Elect Kadriye Ercikan (She/her/hers) will pick up the baton from President Stephen G. Sireci. cApStAn’s Founder Steve Dept (he/him/his) was just co-opted to serve a four-year term on the ITC Council. Steve looks forward to working with his peers, researchers and practitioners alike, to disseminate …

“Steve Dept, Founding Partner of cApStAn LQC, co-opted to serve a 4-year term on the ITC Council”

The International Test Commission (ITC) contributes to promoting effective, valid and fair testing and assessment practices around the world. The imminent ITC conference in Granada (July 2-5) has a strong focus on equity and inclusion when making decisions or comparisons based on tests and questionnaires. The conference theme is “Working together to improve cross-cultural assessment”, which …

“International Test Commission (ITC) Conference 2024, Granada, Spain, July 2-5, 2024 | Working together to improve cross-cultural assessment and research”

Selective use of machine translation, translation quality estimation, light post-editing and quality assurance in surveys and assessments, brought to you by cApStAn From 2000 to 2024, we have come a long way. In 2000, cApStAn had a framework contract with the European Commission for rapid post-editing (RPE) of clunky, rule-based machine translation of internal documents. …

“On-Demand Webinar | The Best of Both Worlds: Efficiency Gains without Loss of Quality”

The Chicago Hyatt Regency, Swissôtel and Fairmont and the Pedway that links them were teeming with I-O practitioners, students, researchers, consultants, solution providers and stakeholders for three and a half days packed with intriguing content and networking events organised by SIOP. Since many of the organisations we work with or want to work with were …

“39th ANNUAL SIOP CONFERENCE, Chicago, April 17-20, 2024 Industrial-Occupational Psychology: the Future of Work from a Human Vantage Point”

SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH kindly hosted the 2024 International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) from 18th to 20th of March. The main goal of CSDI, established in Brussels 2002, is to improve comparative survey design, implementation, harmonization, and dissemination analysis. The workshop provides a forum and platform for researchers involved in research relevant …

“SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH | International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI)”

If you are attending the 2024 SIOP Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, we shall be delighted to welcome you at our booth (#422) for a chat with cApStAn Founding Partner Steve Dept, Business Development and Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh, and Sales and Marketing Manager Anubhav Nathani. For over two decades, cApStAn has been involved in …

“cApStAn exhibiting at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference 2024 in Chicago”

ATP Innovations in Testing 2024, Anaheim California, March 3-6, 2024 | By Steve Dept, Founding Partner, cApStAn Several researchers, executives, consultants and stakeholders from the testing industry have already shared their reflections on the 25th edition of ATP Innovations in Testing. They are my peers, my partners, my friends, people I always respect and mostly admire. They …

“cApStAn at 25th ATP edition in Anaheim | Celebrating a quarter of a century of multidisciplinary knowledge sharing and friendship”

The CSDI (Comparative Survey Design and Implementation) Workshop will be held on March 18th – 20th at the SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH in Berlin, Germany. In a session organised by Dorothee Behr from GESIS and focusing on methods, innovations and new challenges in questionnaire translation, Musab Hayatli, cApStAn Inc. in collaboration with Yongwei Yang from …

“CSDI Workshop in Berlin | Bank for International Survey Answer Scales (BISAS): A Call to Action”

The field trial of the current cycle of the comparative survey of core skills at 5th grade level of Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics 2024 (SEA-PLM), was completed in 2023. Our elite project manager Grace DeLee coordinated the translation and linguistic quality control activities for the seven participating countries: Lao PDR, Viet Nam, Philippines, Myanmar, …

“14th Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) Regional Steering Committee Meeting”

The testing industry is a complex ecosystem that undergoes profound mutations. To monitor these advances, to collectively voice concerns, to advocate the industry’s position, and to issue advice and guidelines, the Association of Test Publishers (ATP), founded in 1992, brings together pioneers, key stakeholders, thought leaders, researchers, test sponsors, certification bodies, advisors and vendors. While …

“cApStAn at ATP Innovations in Testing Conference, Anaheim, USA”