Wednesday | August 19, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT | 5:00 p.m. BST | 6:00 p.m. CEST Register Here Carefully crafted assessment tools too often depend on subtle wording choices, which are expected to trigger certain reactions in respondents (or not). This is part of the psychometrician’s craft. The psychometrician is not a linguist ... Read more >
Translation Verification for Your Assessments & Surveys: What, Why & How? Speakers - Marielle Lerner, Localization Specialist | Grace DeLee, Localization Specialist | Musab Hayatli, MD-Americas Recorded on July 22, 2020 | Duration: 45 minutes At a previous webinar we discussed the pros and cons of using back-translation to evaluate the quality of your translated tests ... Read more >
Garbage in, garbage out: feed AI translatable items Speaker – Steve Dept, Founder & CEO Recorded on July 15, 2020 | Duration: 15 minutes On a daily basis, we hear and read about the threats and opportunities that come with new advances in AI. In the field of translation, the advances ... Read more >
How to embed Adaptation in the Test Design to control the effect of Anglo-Saxon Item Writing Practices Speakers - Steve Dept, Founder & CEO | Elica Krajčeva, Questionnaire Adaptation Specialist Recorded on July 16, 2020 | Duration: 25 minutes How much do you know about good practice in translation and adaptation ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Psychometric tests in technology-rich environments, adaptive psychological tests, social and emotional skills, and profiling tests have gone multinational, thereby increasing the need for translation and adaptation into multiple languages. The International Test Commission guidelines for translating and adapting tests are ... Read more >
cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control is the language service provider with a holistic approach to translation and adaptation of multilingual assessments and surveys. cApStAn also stands for a certain lifestyle and spirit: “excellence among friends”, as one of the founding partners likes to put it. Over the past 20 years we ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In 1983 Italian academic, historian, semiologist, journalist and author Umberto Eco published his first novel, Il nome della rosa (The name of the rose). The book became a literary event almost overnight and was on the best-seller list practically everywhere ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO When I used to run a small translation agency in the nineties, the majority of my clients were universities. Researchers wrote papers, reports and questionnaires (in elegant French, accurate German, factual Dutch or in rather poor English) and needed them translated. They received documents relevant ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Academic institutions worldwide are embracing "STEM" (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education and related curricula, supported in many cases by government funding. The STEM acronym was officially coined in 2001 by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and the STEM movement ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A group of major names in UK entertainment, politics and technology has launched a campaign called "Turn On The Subtitles" calling on broadcasters and technology companies to include same language subtitles in all programming. If English-language subtitles were to be run ... Read more >