Category Archives: cApStAn updates

by Steve Dept – cApStAn partner The E-ATP Conference’s baseline is “Transforming Assessments”. This year’s call to action is “Change. Challenge. Transform.” It is the 10th consecutive year that the European arm of the Association of Test Publishers holds its upbeat annual event on the Old Continent. Athens will be this year’s venue: the cradle …

“Adapting Assessments at the E-ATP Conference in Athens”

by Steve Dept – cApStAn partner The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA (see the short PISA video here) is a system-level assessment of knowledge and skills in 15-year old students across the world. In other words, PISA implements (and analyses) internationally standardised assessments of student learning outcomes towards the end of compulsory …

“The PISA 2021 Core D contract awarded to cApStAn”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Welcome to the third issue of cApStAn’s monthly newsletter. For those of you who did not see the first two editions, in our newsletter we share news about recent developments in the cApStAn ecosystem as well as snippets of information about and around the linguistics …

“cApStAn June 2018 Newsletter”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Welcome to the second issue of cApStAn’s monthly newsletter. This is our first newsletter after the coming into force, on the 25th of May, of the EU Regulation on Data Protection (GDPR). We at cApStAn have the protection of your personal data very much at …

“cApStAn May 2018 newsletter”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Welcome to the first issue of cApStAn’s new-fangled monthly newsletter. What is different about it? Of course we’ll share news about recent developments in the cApStAn ecosystem. We also intend to post snippets of information about and around the linguistics field in general, about testing …

“cApStAn April 2018 newsletter”

by Devasmita Ghosh – Enterprise Growth @ cApStAn//Marielle Lerner – Localization Specialist and Senior Project Manager @cApStAn The cApStAn team attended ATP’s annual conference on Innovations in Testing in the hill country outside historic San Antonio, Texas. The team was welcomed to what would be a high-energy, collaborative, jam-packed four days. There was a lot …

“ATP Innovations in Testing Conference 2018 in San Antonio”

by Steve Dept – cApStAn partner The year 2016 has been quite exceptional for cApStAn, but this was partly due to the fact that the bulk of the work on one of our flagship projects, linguistic quality control in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (OECD/PISA), took place in 2016, just like 2013 had …

“Taking stock of 2017, setting the bar for 2018”

On a cold morning in February, the cApStAn team in Brussels met for shooting. The film crew then followed us to the office, and they captured the dynamics of cApStAn at work. We didn’t need to act. This is what we are like. Hard work, good vibes, the “excellence among friends” approach – the perfect …

“Capturing the dynamics of cApStAn at work”

The OECD Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (OECD/PIAAC) is a large-scale household survey of Adult skills such as literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills. The first cycle of PIAAC was conducted in over 40 countries, with 5000 adults aged 16 to 65 being interviewed in their homes in each of the participating countries. …

“cApStAn a member of the PIAAC Cycle 2 Consortium”

by Steve Dept – cApStAn partner In the late nineties, Steve Dept was involved in two large-scale translation and adaptation projects. As it happens, he was particularly concerned with the time and resources spent on multiple revisions that did not seem to warrant incremental improvements in faithfulness or fluency. The effect of a translation review …

“20 years ago: Avenue de la Renaissance 1”

Watermael-Boitsfort is a verdant residential suburb of Brussels, bordering the Forêt de Soignes, or Sonian Wood. Famous Belgian surrealist painter Paul Delvaux has lived here; fauvist painter and sculptor Rik Wouters lived just around the corner; and the district is still known to be an artsy place, with its own Académie des Beaux-Arts and vibrant …

“A day at cApStAn”

The venue for the 2017 edition of the European Chapter of the Association of Test Publishers was again a rather classy affair, a five-star hotel with a panoramic view of the North Sea, some 40 km out of Amsterdam. The weather conditions were whimsical and the sea was unruly, so the 365 attendees stayed in and everyone …

“cApStAn at the E-ATP 2017 Conference in Noordwijk”