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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"test adaptation"”.
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Towards a culture-free model of the Big Five - a cross-cultural investigation of the Orpheus in four different language families
… research which has largely concentrated on the adaptation of ability measures the present research was operationalised through adapting and translating Orpheus, a work-based Big Five personality questionnaire, into English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish. The first phase, 'Quality …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
This study investigates adaptation of the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA) English Placement Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school graduates as a part of the obligatory Unified State Examination (USE) …
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Differential Item Functioning Analysis of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
… a different probability of correctly answering a test item intended to measure that trait (Shepard & Averill, 1981). The following study is a DIF analysis of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), a preference profiling instrument developed by Herrmann International to help individuals …
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An evaluation of group differences and items bias, across rural isiXhosa learners and urban isiXhosa learners, of the isiXhosa version of the Woodcock Muñoz Language Survey (WMLS)
… influence during psychological and educational testing. In South Africa (SA), factors such as changes in policies and social inequalities also influence testing. Literature supports the translation and adaptation of tests used in such contexts in order to avoid bias caused by language. Different …