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The Promise of Through-Year Assessments

December 18, 2023 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on The Promise of Through-Year Assessments

As the K-12 education landscape continues to evolve, through-year assessments are poised to play an increasingly significant role. Through-year assessments can contribute to more effective teaching, improved student learning and a more equitable and personalized education experience for all learners by providing more frequent, actionable feedback, enabling early identification of struggling learners and supporting data-driven […]

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Ensuring Quality in the Test Development Process

June 19, 2023 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on Ensuring Quality in the Test Development Process

Learn about best practices for the test development process from The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Here on the blog we’ve talked a lot about the International Testing Commission’s ITC Guidelines for Translating and Adapting Tests (both first and second edition), which for years have informed our work translating K-12 educational assessments. But just […]

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What You Need to Know About Test Publishing in Spanish

March 13, 2023 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on What You Need to Know About Test Publishing in Spanish

If your test publishing company is developing assessments in English, you may be leaving money on the table if you’re not also producing assessments in Spanish. What Is Test Publishing? Test publishing is all about creating, producing and delivering assessments in order to measure students or test takers’ performance or progress. This includes developing content, […]

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Raising the Stakes on Testing

November 28, 2022 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on Raising the Stakes on Testing

High-stakes assessments are tests, assessments or testing instruments that have big consequences with a lot at stake. It may sound like a big poker game in Vegas, but in high-stakes testing, nothing can be left to chance. Results can be life-changing. This is the kind of translation we like best at Responsive. We are all […]

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What Is Differential Item Functioning?

January 6, 2022 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation, Testing and QA - Comments Off on What Is Differential Item Functioning?

Fairness is an essential element in testing. This is as true for an original assessment as for one that has been adapted for use in a different linguistic and cultural context. In both cases, the successful development, administration and measurement of a testing instrument depends on principles such as the equitable treatment of test takers […]

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Common Acronyms Used for K-12 Education

December 17, 2021 -By: -In: Instructional Design, Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on Common Acronyms Used for K-12 Education

Educators, test publishers and other professionals who serve K-12 students often use a variety of acronyms. But what do they all mean? In this quick guide we explain some of the most common acronyms that are used for K-12 education today. CBA – Curriculum-Based Assessment. After students receive instruction according to an established plan of […]

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What Is Item Writing?

December 2, 2021 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on What Is Item Writing?

In test development for education and certification, an item is the basic building block of any test or assessment. Items can be questions, tasks, prompts or similar. They may require test takers to select a response from a set of choices or to generate their own response based on the information or parameters provided. Common […]

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How Authentic Passage Selection Supports the Assessment of Reading Comprehension…in Any Language

May 25, 2021 -By: -In: Curriculum Translation, Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on How Authentic Passage Selection Supports the Assessment of Reading Comprehension…in Any Language

“The more you read, the more things you know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go!” —Dr. Seuss Reading is the most important skill that children will learn and refine over the course of their education. Reading not only develops the mind but it will serve as the foundation for their successful […]

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Why Translating Your Exam into Spanish Is a Must

April 14, 2021 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on Why Translating Your Exam into Spanish Is a Must

If your organization’s exam is currently only offered in English, then it’s time to reconsider. Who does your test serve? And who should it be serving? Exams are important instruments that measure test takers’ knowledge and skills, but they only work when you give test takers a real opportunity to demonstrate what they know. For […]

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Assessments in the Time of COVID

January 28, 2021 -By: -In: Test and Assessment Translation - Comments Off on Assessments in the Time of COVID

We’re heading into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Far from getting a winter break, teachers, students, parents, administrators, policy makers and other stakeholders are all still busy trying to save the education of a generation. Typically, high-stakes assessments serve a variety of purposes ranging from measuring student learning and achievement to providing school […]

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