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 >
Translatability Assessment: How to Identify (and Resolve many) Translation Issues before They Occur Speakers: CEO Steve Dept and Localization Specialist Marielle Lerner Recorded Live on Sept. 30, 2020 | Duration: 45 min. A translatability assessment (TA) is a tried and tested method to optimize the master version of your assessment ... Read more >
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has to be credited with pioneering international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and with setting the bar very high in terms of methodology. The IEA also shares data and information with education stakeholders, policy-makers, researchers and field practitioners. In this spirit, the ... Read more >
By Dr Satish Y. Deodhar, Professor, Economics - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Advanced technology permitting, entire world’s supply of food can be grown in a flower pot. The purport of this imagination is slowly coming true. With globalization, distances - physical, cultural, social, and technological are getting narrowed down ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Planet Word", opening up in Washington DC on October 22, 2020, will be an interactive center dedicated to language arts. Its mission is to inspire a love of words and language and the project is grounded in the belief that ... Read more >
The Double Source Double Translation Design in the HPEI personality questionnaire Speaker – Steve Dept, Founder & CEO | Danina Lupsa, Localization Specialist Recorded on Aug. 17, 2020 | Duration: 20 minutes The HPEI is a personality questionnaire. It is used for leadership coaching and has 52 questions used to attribute ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have opened up enormous opportunities in the field of translation. Today, with a well-designed – hybrid – workflow that combines human expertise and neural machine translation (NMT), it is technically possible to produce multiple language ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Functional equivalence of test items across different languages and cultures is essential in order to ensure comparability of data. In the course of our 20+ year experience in linguistic quality assurance (LQA), in particular for major international large scale assessments ... Read more >
By Dr Richard D. Roberts, CEO and Co-Founder of RAD Science Post updated on 14.09.2020 I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln, circa 1849 ... Read more >
Why psychometricians & linguists need to join forces to improve the validity of multilingual assessments Speakers – Steve Dept, Founder & CEO Recorded Live on Aug 19, 2020 | Duration: 45 minutes Carefully crafted assessment tools too often depend on subtle wording choices, which are expected to trigger certain reactions in ... 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 >