Drago Iliescu &

Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 709
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 156mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 1036g
• ISBN-13: 9781107525993
• ISBN-10: 1107525993
• Artikelnr.: 57970491

Autorenporträt

Dragö 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.