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Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations Dragos Iliescu

Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations By Dragos Iliescu

Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations by Dragos Iliescu


Summary

This original book is the first to provide a step-by-step guide to test adaptation. Targeted specifically at practitioners in the domain of tests and psychometrics, as well as psychology and educational researchers, it delivers practical tools to adapt tests through specific steps outlined in an operational manner.

Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations Summary

Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations by Dragos Iliescu

This book explores test adaptation, a scientific and professional activity now spanning all of the social and behavioural sciences. Adapting tests to various linguistic and cultural contexts is a critical process in today's globalized world, and requires a combination of knowledge and skills from psychometrics, cross-cultural psychology and others. This volume provides a step-by-step approach to cross-cultural test adaptation, emphatically presented as a melange between science and practice. The volume is driven by the first-hand practical experience of the author in a large number of test adaptation projects in various cultures, and is supported by the consistent scientific body of knowledge accumulated over the last several decades on the topic. It is the first of its kind: an in-depth treatise and guide on why and how to adapt a test to a new culture in such a way as to preserve its psychometric value.

About Dragos Iliescu

Dragos Iliescu has been working with tests, testing, and test adaptation for more than twenty years as both a scientist and entrepreneur. He founded or contributed to several test publishers in Eastern Europe and with test adaptation publishers and firms all over the world. He co-edited the ITC Handbook of Testing and Assessment (2015) and is presently President of the International Test Commission (ITC), as well as associate editor of the European Journal for Psychological Assessment. This is his first monograph.

Table of Contents

Part I. Preliminary Issues in Test Adaptations: 1. What is test adaptation?; 2. Copyright and the protection of intellectual property; 3. Standards, guidelines, recommendations; Part II. Equivalence in Test Adaptations: 4. What is equivalence?; 5. Testing for equivalence and detecting bias; 6. Dealing with bias; Part III. Critical Phases in the Adaptation Process: 7. Translation designs; 8. Pretesting; 9. Norming; 10. Closing the process; 11. Examples of test adaptations.

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NLS9781107525993
9781107525993
1107525993
Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations by Dragos Iliescu
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-10-10
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