In this guest blog post, Alina von Davier gives us some thoughts on how ACT and ACTNext have been adapting to the changing climate around remote education and assessment.
Business of Testing
Translating Verbal Reasoning Tests: How difficult can it be?
It can be quite a skill to translate a verbal reasoning test, and there is plenty to watch out for. In this blog post, we look at some of the complexities.
Situational Judgement Tests (or Seriously Jeopardous Tasks)
Situational Judgement Tests (or SJTs) are in widespread use and a well-constructed SJT can provide invaluable insights into a person’s attitudes and behaviour in the workplace. However, translating SJTs into other languages needs to be handled very carefully as there...
Pillars of Privacy Protection and Data Security in Testing (Guest Post)
With test taker privacy and data security being such an important part of the testing process, Gary Behrens looks at some of the considerations and hope the Association of Test Publishers is playing a role in the test security and privacy area.
Staying Relevant by Thinking Disruptively (Guest Post)
The 21st Century is emerging as the age of disruptive thinking. For some organizations, disruptive thinking sounds ominous, but for others disruptive thinking forms positive, creative, and leading edge images. By its nature disruptive thinking compels market...
E-ATP 2016 – How does interoperability help the assessment industry?
Having recently returned from a very sunny European ATP Conference in Libson, we managed to catch up with Trifork Learning Solution's CEO Erwin Van Schaffelaar, where we found out a little more about his vision for the future of assessment interoperability and...
Smartphones will dominate recruitment testing (Guest Post)
Continuing our series of assessment-related guest posts, we asked Dr Robert McHenry, founder and Executive Chairman of OPP Ltd to give us his thoughts on a topic which he thinks is key to the future and globalisation of the testing and assessment industry: smartphones.
Test Translation vs. Test Adaptation: What’s the Difference? (Guest Post)
Taking psychometric test items abroad is about so much more than translation. In our second guest post, Dr. Joy Matthews-López talks about some of the considerations she has faced in the past adapting her items for Mexico.
Test Adaptation: A Psychometric Perspective (Guest Post)
Comms has been asking industry thought leaders to provide guest contributions for our blog. In her first post for Comms Multilingual, Dr. Joy Matthews-López, Senior Psychometrician at the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) writes about test adaptation and equivalence of translated and adapted versions to the original.
What are the advantages of translating, localising and adapting your tests?
In previous posts, we looked at what localisation and adaptation mean and discussed whether certifications and assessments should be translated. We will now consider the advantages that you get if you do decide to translate, localise and adapt your tests, assessments...
Should you translate your tests, assessments and certifications?
In our previous post, we looked at the translation, localisation and adaptation process and the fact that it is very important to get all three steps right in order to ensure that your assessment will work in another country and for another culture. How are testing organisations actually coping with different sensibilities and cultures in addition to translation?