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 ... 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 ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A new volume of the Wiley Series on Survey Methodology has just come out: "Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts " and is publicly available now. We have contributed chapter 16, ... 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 ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The range of methods ("modes") of data collection in surveys has changed drastically over the past decades. Each new technological advance has required survey research to adapt. More recently, as people are increasingly taking online ... 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 ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Public opinion in a changing world" was the theme of the 2018 annual conference of WAPOR, the World Association for Public Opinion Research, which took place in Marrakech from June 27-30. Attending on behalf of ... Read more >
by Emel Ince - Project manager @ cApStAn
Online translation platforms such as Google Translation and Microsoft Translator have fuelled lively discussions. Recently, one such topic on social media has been the alleged gender bias of these platforms: Some users reported that, when translating phrases ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
As more people redefine their gender identity in "non-binary" terms, schools, governments, workplaces and parents are having to adapt, says the author of an interesting article in KQED Science (1). Lists of possible gender options ... 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 ... Read more >