Dissertation
TEST ADAPTATION ACTIVITIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2014
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111855
Abstract
Contemporary cross-cultural assessment practices require alternative-language and alternative-culture versions of a test or assessment to evaluate an examinee's psychological or educational characteristics. Often, researchers will adapt an existing assessment instead of creating a new assessment. This practice raises questions regarding the equivalence of the adapted assessment, especially measurement of the construct across cultures and languages. Despite well-established methodologies for evaluating construct validity across assessment forms, there remain concerns about how culture and language influence a new version of a test. Such concerns include not having clear procedures to control culture and language effects across versions of an assessment and poor documentation of the process. Through a systematic review of published documents and a validity study, this dissertation contrasts test adaptation practices and testing guidelines to examine customary procedures followed by the international community. The systematic review reveals construct equivalence across test editions is consistently evaluated using standard psychometric methodology. In contrast, evaluating how translation and cultural aspects impact an adapted version is not clearly addressed. The validity study provides evidence for the Mexican version of an American test; it also shows habitual challenges faced when researchers adapt a measurement into a second language. Overall findings suggest there is a need to develop a standard methodology to organize validity studies to enhance test adaptation activities. Such a standard methodology paired to continuous construct equivalence research could increase our understanding about how culture and language impact the properties of adapted test versions.
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- Title
- TEST ADAPTATION ACTIVITIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
- Creators
- Juan Antonio Valdivia Vázquez
- Contributors
- Brian F. French (Advisor)Michael S. Trevisan (Committee Member)Olusola O. Adesope (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Kinesiology and Educational Psychology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 164
- Identifiers
- 99900581443301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation