by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, turned 20 on January 15. With its 55 milion articles in 300 languages it is the 13th most visited page on the web. Wikipedia entries are generally in the forefront of preliminary web research on almost ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO Readers of this informative series on good practice in test translation are aware that the Chaos Management Skills Assessment is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive purpose of the series. The purpose is to illustrate the complexity of test translation and ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO By now, readers of this informative series on good practice in test translation are aware that the Chaos Management Skills Assessment is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive purpose of the series. The purpose is to illustrate the complexity of test ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A Case Study on the Halin Prémont Enneagram Institute Leadership Assessment Questionnaire Translation from French and English to multiple languages The Halin Prémont Enneagram Indicator, developed by Belgian researchers Philippe Halin and Jacques Prémont, is a scientifically validated questionnaire designed ... Read more >
by Kristin Bernor, Questionmark and Steve Dept, cApStAn It takes more than a good translation provider and a good platform to ensure that an assessment can reliably measure cognitive and non-cognitive skills across languages and cultures. Of course, most sophisticated testing environments support multiple languages, but they may fail to ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO By now, readers of this informative series on good practice in test translation are aware that the Chaos Management Skills Assessment is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive purpose of the series. The purpose is to illustrate the complexity of test ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of data collection instruments requires a Linguistic Quality Assurance (LQA) design that will ensure that multiple language versions of a test or questionnaire will meet the highest standards of linguistic, cultural and functional equivalence. Clients can ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO Please don’t spend too much time looking up the Chaos Management Skills Assessment. It is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive purpose of this informative series on good practice in skills assessments translation. We have collated events and features from several ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village At the recent ATP 2020 global event, a conference gone virtual, our CEO, Steve Dept, presented an innovative approach to test translation and test localisation. He introduced a diagnostic model for a “test travel agent”. Test items do not necessarily ... Read more >
Why Translatability Assessment works for your Multilingual Tests Speaker – Marielle Lerner, Localization Specialist Recorded on Oct. 29, 2020| Duration: 25 Minutes Translatability Assessment, a method for optimizing source items for translation and adaptation, can be an integral step in the design of multilingual tests. The process helps raise awareness of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Does joy, by any other name, in another language, still taste as sweet, and fear still sting as bitter?" asks Marianna Pogosyan, Ph.D. lecturer in Cultural Psychology, in a recent article for Psychology Today. The article refers to a study ... Read more >
By Dr Thierry Rocher, Head Office for Student Assessment (DEPP), IEA Chair & Co-founding member of FLIP+ New technologies have undoubtedly taken a major role in the field of education, especially in this period of pandemic. We all see the vast opportunities offered by digital technology, but we are also ... Read more >