1998
Andrea Ferrari and Steve Dept seek advice from survey methodologists and psychometricians to develop a linguistic quality control framework for PISA.
History
2000
cApStAn comes into being.
2002
Over 60 international verifiers have a framework contract with cApStAn.
2005
A set of verifier intervention categories is created.
2007
Acquisition of BranTra, an existing technical translation agency.
2010
cApStAn becomes a member of the PIAAC Consortium.
2011
Design of a Translatability Assessment.
2012
cApStAn has become the port of call for a host of major comparative surveys, international attitudinal surveys, psychological screening tests, multilingual polls and social surveys. The network of contributing experts reaches the 200 mark.
2014
Creation of a US branch in Philadelphia: cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control, Inc.
2017
Acquisition of KLS International, a translation agency.