Issues, Designs, and Technical Guidelines for Adapting Tests Into Multiple Languages and Cultures

By R. K. Hambleton, P. F. Merenda, C. Spielberger. 2004

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Guidelines for translating and adapting psychological instruments (2009, methodology): “Firstly, the International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines for test adaptation are discussed (Hambleton, 1994, 2005; van de Vijver & Hambleton, 1996; Tanzer & Sim, 1999).”
The Effects of Test Translation on Young English Learners’ Mathematics Performance (2010, methodology): “One potential issue, however, concerns the considerable cost and time-consuming nature of creating highquality translations in a variety of languages (Hambleton, 2005; Stansfield, 2003); future work should produce cost–benefit analyses whenever possible.”
Relationship Between Chinese Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge and Their Professional Noticing (2020, neutral): “The translation from English into Chinese was checked by several Chinese mathematics educators in order to secure the semantic, idiomatic, experiential, and conceptual equivalence between the original German items and the Chinese translation (Hambleton, 2005).”
Cross-Cultural Validation of A Revised Environmental Identity Scale (2021, methodology): “As necessary, the questionnaire was translated into the local language using a backtranslation design [45,46].”
Relaciones entre empatía, conducta prosocial, agresividad, autoeficacia y responsabilidad personal y social de los escolares (2011, background): “Siguiendo las recomendaciones de Hambleton (2005), los ítems fueron traducidos del inglés al español y después nuevamente al inglés para comprobar si coincidían con las versiones originales.”
Adaptação e Validação de Instrumentos Psicológicos entre Culturas: Algumas Considerações (2012, methodology): “In general, these translations are performed by the researchers themselves and rely solely on the process of back-translation, in which only the degree of semantic equivalence between the adapted version and the original version is analyzed (Cassepp-Borges et al., 2010; Hambleton, 2005; Reichenheim ”
Psychometric Properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire–II for Chinese College Students and Elite Chinese Athletes (2014, methodology): “Following the steps for the transcultural validation of psychometric instruments (Hambleton, 2001, 2005), the instrument (AAQ-II; Bond et al., 2011) was translated into Chinese by two bilingual experts through a committee approach (i.e., reaching an agreement through discussion) and then back…”
Evaluating Guidelines For Test Adaptations (2006, methodology): “Keywords: construct validity; cross-lingual assessment; differential item functioning; test translation; validity The Guidelines for Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests (Hambleton, 1994, 2001, 2005), developed by the International Test Commission (ITC),1 provide sage advice regarding how to”
Assessing English-Language Learners’ Achievement (2008, background): “Sireci, Patsula, and Hambleton (2005) and Sireci (2005) outline strategies of this sort to permit linking and comparison of scores on assessments that are intended to be parallel in two languages.”