Testing and assessment in translation and interpreting studies a call for dialogue between research and practice (John Benjamins Pub., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction: Testing and assessment in translation and interpreting studies: a call for dialogue between research and practice / Claudia V. Angelelli and Holly E. Jacobson -- Part I. The development of assessment instruments: theoretical applications. Using a rubric to assess translation ability: defining the construct / Claudia V. Angelelli -- Moving beyond words in assessing mediated interaction: measuring interactional competence in healthcare settings / Holly E. Jacobson -- Part II. The development of assessment instruments: empirical approaches. The perks of norm-referenced translation evaluation / June Eyckmans, Philippe Anckaert and Winibert Segers -- Revisiting Carroll's scales / Elisabet Tiselius -- Meaning-oriented assessment of translations: SFL and its application to formative assessment / Mira Kim -- Assessing cohesion: developing assessment tools on the basis of comparable corpora / Brian James Baer and Tatyana Bystrova-McIntyre -- Assessing software localization: for a valid approach / Keiran Dunne -- Part III. Professional certification: lessons from case studies. The predictive validity of admission tests for conference interpreting courses in Europe: a case study / Šárka Timarová and Harry Ungoed-Thomas -- Getting it right from the start: program admission testing of signed language interpreters / Karen Bontempo and Jemina Napier -- Standards as critical success factors in assessment: certifying social interpreters in Flanders, Belgium / Hildegard Vermeiren, Jan Van Gucht and Leentje De Bontridder -- Assessing ASL-English interpreters: the Canadian model of national certification / Debra Russell and Karen Malcolm
Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies examines issues of measurement that are essential to translation and interpreting. Conceptualizing testing both as a process and a product, the collection of papers explores these issues across languages and settings (including university classrooms, research projects, the private sector, and professional associations). The authors have approached their chapters from different perspectives using a variety of methods, some focusing on very specific variables, and others providing a much broader overview of the issues at hand. Chapte