by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Students preparing for a job interview have to face a "stark new reality", reads a recent article by Rachel Metz for CNN Business: they could be vetted in part by artificial intelligence. There is a surge in the use of ... 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 End 2019, Questionmark, industry leader in assessment management software, launched a monthly podcast series called "Unlocking the Potential of Assessments." This monthly series is hosted by Founder and Executive Director John Kleeman and shares insights on good practice in designing, ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO When translating an assessment, a linguistically correct, fluent translation does not ensure that same constructs are measured, that test items are understood the same way or, for that matter, that the fairness, reliability and validity of the test have been maintained. This explains why more ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village If today's youth aren't adequately educated about the reality of climate change, its effects and the ways the planet can prevent it, how can impactful solutions be implemented? Climate change is an education priority, says the author of a ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The translation and adaptation of measurement instruments is of vital importance in achieving comparability of data in large-scale assessments. What is meant by "comparability" and how can translations be produced that meet the objectives for comparability? This was the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Reading is no longer mainly about extracting information; it is about constructing knowledge, thinking critically and making well-founded judgements". "Students need to be able to read complex texts, distinguish between credible and untrustworthy sources of information, and between fact ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO All language service providers will claim that they only work with experienced translators, which is mostly true, but this does not per se ensure translation quality. Serious organisations - and there are many - will invest time in preparing their test translation and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The assessment framework of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SEL) has just been published. (1) Together with the previously published conceptual framework, the Study now has complete framework documentation explaining all of its substantive and methodological ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Contrary to common assumption young people do not necessarily develop sophisticated digital skills just by growing up using digital devices: 18% of students who took part in the latest cycle of the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) ... Read more >