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Direct linkRios, Joseph A.; Sireci, Stephen G. – International Journal of Testing, 2014
The International Test Commission's "Guidelines for Translating and Adapting Tests" (2010) provide important guidance on developing and evaluating tests for use across languages. These guidelines are widely applauded, but the degree to which they are followed in practice is unknown. The objective of this study was to perform a…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Translation, Adaptive Testing, Second Languages
Download full textSireci, Stephen G. – 1995
Test developers continue to struggle with the technical and logistical problems inherent in assessing achievement across different languages. Many testing programs offer separate language versions of a test to evaluate the achievement of examinees in different language groups. However, comparisons of individuals who took different language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Assessment, Equated Scores, Intercultural Communication
Peer reviewedSireci, Stephen G.; Berberoglu, Giray – Applied Measurement in Education, 2000
Studied a method for investigating the equivalence of translated-adapted items using bilingual test takers through item response theory. Results from an English-Turkish course evaluation form completed by 688 Turkish students indicate that the methodology is effective in flagging items that function differentially across languages and informing…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, College Students, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Sireci, Stephen G.; Gonzalez, Eugenio J. – 2003
International comparative educational studies make use of test instruments originally developed in English by international panels of experts, but that are ultimately administered in the language of instruction of the students. The comparability of the different language versions of these assessments is a critical issue in validating the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, International Education
Sireci, Stephen G.; Khaliq, Shameem Nyla – 2002
Many students in the United States who are required to take educational tests are not fully proficient in English. To address this problem, a state-mandated testing program created dual language English-Spanish versions of some of their tests. In this study, the psychometric properties of the English and dual language versions of a fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Item Bias, Language Proficiency, Limited English Speaking, Multidimensional Scaling
Peer reviewedSireci, Stephen G. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1997
Different methodologies for linking tests across languages are reviewed and evaluated, focusing on monolingual item response theory, bilingual group designs, and matched monolingual group designs. These methods, although not without weaknesses, are superior for promoting score comparability than methods that rely on translation or expert judgment…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Assessment
