by Devasmita Ghosh, Enterprise Growth @cApStAn We at cApStAn had the opportunity to attend the ICE Exchange ‘18, Institute of Credentialing Excellence’s annual conference in Austin this November. With 750 attendees, it was a new record for the ICE and the perfect platform for us to meet and learn from ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Globalization and innovative web technologies have removed geographic boundaries and opened new opportunities for awarding bodies, technology certification programs and credentialing organizations. However, with these opportunities come new challenges: How do you localize items and assessments so they will ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner The E-ATP Conference’s baseline is “Transforming Assessments”. This year’s call to action is “Change. Challenge. Transform.” It is the 10th consecutive year that the European arm of the Association of Test Publishers holds its upbeat annual event on the Old Continent. Athens will be ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA (see the short PISA video here) is a system-level assessment of knowledge and skills in 15-year old students across the world. In other words, PISA implements (and analyses) internationally standardised assessments of student learning outcomes ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Welcome to the third issue of cApStAn's monthly newsletter. For those of you who did not see the first two editions, in our newsletter we share news about recent developments in the cApStAn ecosystem as well as snippets of information ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Welcome to the second issue of cApStAn's monthly newsletter. This is our first newsletter after the coming into force, on the 25th of May, of the EU Regulation on Data Protection (GDPR). We at cApStAn have the protection of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Welcome to the first issue of cApStAn's new-fangled monthly newsletter. What is different about it? Of course we'll share news about recent developments in the cApStAn ecosystem. We also intend to post snippets of information about and around the linguistics ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner A capstan is a winch, a rotating machine used to multiply the pulling force of seamen. It consists of a vertical spinning drum around which a cable is wound and is used on sailing ships. A five ton anchor can be hoisted by the ... Read more >
by Debasmita Gosh - enterprise growth @ cApStAn//Marielle Lerner - linguist and senior project manager @cApStAn The cApStAn team attended ATP’s annual conference on Innovations in Testing in the hill country outside historic San Antonio, Texas. The team was welcomed to what would be a high-energy, collaborative, jam-packed four days. ... Read more >
by Steve Dept – cApStAn partner The year 2016 has been quite exceptional for cApStAn, but this was partly due to the fact that the bulk of the work on one of our flagship projects, linguistic quality control in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (OECD/PISA), took place in ... Read more >
On a cold morning in February, the cApStAn team in Brussels met for shooting. The film crew then followed us to the office, and they captured the dynamics of cApStAn at work. We didn't need to act. This is what we are like. Hard work, good vibes, the "excellence among ... Read more >
The OECD Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (OECD/PIAAC) is a large-scale household survey of Adult skills such as literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills. The first cycle of PIAAC was conducted in over 40 countries, with 5000 adults aged 16 to 65 being interviewed in their homes in ... Read more >