Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations

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.

List 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.

About the author

Dragoş 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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Drago& Iliescu, Dragos Iliescu, Dragoş Iliescu, Dragos (SNSPA University) Iliescu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781107525993
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52599-3
• No. of pages: 709
• Series: Educational and Psychological; Educational and Psychological Testing in a Global Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Education, Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Study & learning skills: general, Psychological methodology, STUDY AIDS / Study & Test-Taking Skills, Study and learning skills: general