How Technology is Transforming Assessment: What the Future Looks Like
In this guest post, Microsoft's Liberty Munson looks at some of the ways assessments are changing, as well as their future due to advances in technology.
psychometrics
Translating Situational Judgement Tests
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 are many potential issues that need to be taken into consideration.
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.
What is the Difference Between Translation and Adaptation in Psychometric Testing? (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.
Cicek Svensson – New Vice President, Sales and Marketing, USA & Canada
I am delighted to announce that Cicek Svensson Consulting has been appointed as the Comms Multilingual Sales Agency in the USA and Canada. Cicek will be acting as the Vice President for Sales and Marketing, covering the USA and Canada. Comms has an ever-growing number of clients in the USA and Canada and Cicek will provide a local contact for all our current and prospective clients there.
