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ATP 2024 Innovations in Testing Conference

We are happy to announce that Comms is sponsoring and exhibiting at this year’s #ATP2024 Conference on March 3rd-6th. Please stop by our booth to have a chat about your translation needs. This year, ATP will take place in Anaheim, California.

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.

The future of assessment: the world demands authentic solutions (Guest Post)

At Comms Multilingual, we are very interested in the latest developments within the assessment and certification industries. To that end, we are asking industry experts to provide guest contributions to our blog, which we hope will be of interest to our community.

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.

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.