Psychometric Tests & Assessments
Specialist services for the translation, localisation and adaptation of I/O, clinical and educational assessments
Comms Multilingual specialises in the translation and adaptation of all types of test and assessment.
We offer expertise in the industrial/organisational, educational and clinical psychology areas, where a deep understanding of the subject matter is essential for the creation of quality translations.
The services we offer are fully flexible and depend on the type of content and your individual needs: translating a personality test presents different challenges to the translation of a cognitive ability test or to a multimedia SJT, for example.
Where item content is concerned, we generally recommend adding additional quality assurance steps to ensure the highest level of equivalence. For the translation of a feedback or development report, it may be possible to allow for a slightly “leaner” approach, where we simply translate and proofread.
The Comms Multilingual translation, localisation and adaptation methodology is based on years of experience, as well as our thorough knowledge of the ITC guidelines for translating and adapting tests and assessments, which helps ensure that translations of your material are defensible.
After all, if the process for developing the original test was rigorous, then why shouldn’t the same be said for its translation?
Pre-Translation Analysis
Back Translation
Quality Assurance
Expert Review
Dual Forward Translation
In some cases, you may prefer to follow the dual translation route. Here, we complete two independent translations and combine them to form a final “best of both” translation.
In-Context Checking
Considerations and Challenges
Linguistic Ambiguities
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Localisation
Untranslatable Concepts
Adaptation of Values
Typical Assessment Translation Projects
- Candidate recruitment
- Situational judgement tests
- Verbal reasoning
- Numerical reasoning
- Emotional intelligence
- Aptitude tests
- Personality assessments
- Leadership skills, and many more
Featured Case Studies
We are involved in projects covering a wide variety of business, clinical and educational psychology assessments in many different areas. Read more about some of the projects that we have worked on.
Request a Quotation
- Which type of material do you need to have translated (i.e. assessment, test, exam, reports, etc.)?
- Which language or languages do you need and for which locales?
- Do you require both forward and back translation?
- Do you need expert review, cognitive debriefing or normative data collection services?
- In which format will the text to be translated come to us (Word, Excel, HTML, PowerPoint, QuarkXpress, etc.)?
- In which format would you like it to be returned to you?
Please contact us and send the materials by email or FTP so that we can ascertain if there is anything else that we need to know in order to give you an accurate quotation.