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Cultural and linguistic considerations when developing, adapting, and validating measures. best practice recommendations for test development and validity efforts / Translating/adapting tests to increase fairness for linguistic minority examinees :
This intermediate-level presentation will discuss the use of test adaptation as an accommodation for assessing linguistic minority populations. Although translating or adapting tests and questionnaires for use across multiple languages is not new, cross-lingual assessment activities are rapidly incr...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln, NE :
Buros Center for Testing,
2019.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Summary: | This intermediate-level presentation will discuss the use of test adaptation as an accommodation for assessing linguistic minority populations. Although translating or adapting tests and questionnaires for use across multiple languages is not new, cross-lingual assessment activities are rapidly increasing. In fact, assessing individuals who operate in different languages through the use of test adaptation is one of the distinguishing features of assessment in the 21st century. However, there are serious concerns about the degree to which translated tests provide valid comparisons of examinees who take different language versions of an assessment. To assist in improving the validity of inferences made from adapted tests, this presentation will discuss recommended test development efforts, such as identification of appropriate test translators and judgmental designs for evaluating translation quality. Furthermore, three potential sources of translation bias (construct, method, and item bias) will be discussed. In doing so, statistical methods for evaluating measurement invariance for each source of bias will be presented. When presenting statistical methods, which will include factor analysis, generalizability theory, and differential item functioning, a brief description of each procedure will be provided taking into consideration practical issues, such as small sample sizes, where possible. In addition to quantitative methodology, the presentation will also include a brief discussion on how qualitative methods (e.g., think-aloud protocol and cognitive interviewing) can be applied to concerns of test adaptation quality. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed February 24, 2023). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (55 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:54:23 |
| Participant or Performer: | Presenter: Joseph Rios. |
| Language: | In English. |