by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner At a verifier training workshop in Istanbul, our Kazakh colleague had a gift for me: a traditional Kazakh skullcap. This headgear was made from white felt and embroidered with gold thread. Wearing it would enhance my prestige and authority, he claimed, and I ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village If you are attending the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, ESRA, taking place in Zagreb, July 15-19, do take the time to visit our booth: meet cApStAn CEO Steve Dept and questionnaire adaptation specialist Elica Krajčeva. Both ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Assessments often depend on subtle wording choices, which are expected to trigger certain reactions in respondents (or not). For example, do you think the question "Should there be a trade-off between accountability and purposeful action?" could be translated into ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner Andrea Ferrari, one of the founders of cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control, coined that phrase a decade ago: excellence among friends. At the end of two-day training seminar for verifiers in charge of linguistic quality assurance of multiple language versions of OECD/PIAAC Cycle 2 and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village cApStAn LQC is proud to announce its official ranking as one of the Top 40 Language Service Providers (LSPs) in Western Europe by independent market research firm CSA Research. “CSA Research is perceived as a reliable source worldwide for ... Read more >
cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control is thrilled to co-chair a coordinated session at the NCME (National Council on Measurement in Education) conference in Toronto this week. The symposium "Test Adaptation, Translation errors, and Linking across Languages in International Large Scale Assessments" (ILSAs) will be held on April 8th and is co-chaired ... Read more >
There is a growing interest and awareness of the need for a robust translation/adaptation design when administering tests in multiple languages and that this was reflected in the recent ATP Innovations in Testing 2019 conference program. cApStAn LQC is proud to be gold sponsor of this exceptional forum and we ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner The cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control team was in Vienna recently for the first National Project Managers' meeting of the 8th cycle of PISA (the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment). There were 88 confirmed participating countries/economies and 140 locales (language/region combinations) represented, and ... Read more >
Asking members of the cApStAn team to share their traditions for the New Year yielded some fun contributions. To start with, many pointed out, the New Year is not on the same date everywhere: according to the Orthodox Church Julian calendar, for example, the last day of the year is ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner cApStAn linguistic quality control is a brand name (and a registered trademark) for a holistic approach to translation and adaptation of assessments and surveys; cApStAn also stands for a certain lifestyle and spirit: “Excellence among friends”, as one of the founding partners likes ... Read more >