Wednesday | May 5, 2021 12 pm EDT (New York) | 5 pm BST (London) | 6 pm CEST (Brussels) REGISTER HERE Join us on May 5 for a one-hour online panel moderated by Steve Dept, founder of cApStAn and expert on linguistic quality assurance in surveys and assessments. Standardized ... Read more >
Wednesday | April 14, 2021 12:00 pm CEST | 3:30 p.m. IST | 6:00 p.m. MYT/SGT REGISTER HERE International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) and surveys in multinational, multiregional and multicultural contexts (3MC) have completely overhauled translation practices. New insights in why correct translations can cause unexpected response patterns have led to ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a series of international assessments of the mathematics and science knowledge of students around the world, administered every four years. TIMSS 2019 was conducted in 64 countries and 8 ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village How do you define “translation quality”? How can it be measured? In a recent live webinar cApStAn’s CEO Steve Dept explained how “intervention categories” used in a translation verification process can help report on translation quality in a standardized way ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO The idiom “these folks mix like water and oil” usually refer to an insuperable difficulty for certain people to blend and see eye to eye with one another. When we were asked to verify the translation of assessments for which it was obvious that linguists ... Read more >
Wednesday | March 31, 2021 10:00 a.m. EDT | 3:00 p.m. BST | 4:00 p.m. CEST REGISTER HERE In multilingual surveys, survey researchers would like to ascertain that all respondents understand the survey questions the same way, i.e. the way the questions are intent to be understood. However, there is no single correct ... Read more >
by Marielle Lerner - Localization Specialist Lost in adaptation If you are involved with the production of international surveys or assessments, you have likely observed the “lost in translation” phenomenon in action. On the other hand, you may have never heard the expression “lost in adaptation”, something that we at ... Read more >
Wednesday | March 10, 2021 12:00 p.m. ET | 5:00 p.m. GMT | 6:00 p.m. CET REGISTER HERE Join us on March 10 for a 45-minute live webinar with cApStAn founder Steve Dept, who will walk you through a set of intervention categories used in international large-scale assessments as well as in survey ... Read more >
by Andrea Ferrari – Senior Associate In international surveys in general and in comparative assessments in particular, investigators are interested in collecting data about knowledge, skills and competences of a given population at a given point in time. In addition, if periodical data collections are planned, it is of great ... Read more >
Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO It may take a psychologist or a subject matter expert to be a test author and develop good questions, but nothing speaks against that person being monolingual, right? It doesn’t prevent them from doing a sterling job. Anglo-Saxon items writing practices have dominated the assessment universe ... Read more >
Wednesday | February 24, 2021 12:00 p.m. ET | 5:00 p.m. GMT | 6:00 p.m. CET REGISTER HERE The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) was founded in 1958 and has pioneered international large-scale assessments (ILSAs). IEA studies measure achievement in students worldwide. The outcomes of these studies inform education ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A patent filing by Swiss pharma company IBSA (Institut Biochimique S.A.) has been rejected in a US Court ruling which found that the certified English translation of the Italian term semiliquido was “indefinite”, as the English term “half-liquid” could be ... Read more >