Category Archives: cApStAn updates

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”

The conferences were announced a year ago or more. There were calls for sessions, calls for papers, announcements, short courses, and we knew we just had to be part of these two major events. It was a great idea to organise the 70th Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (http://wapor.org/70th-annual-conference) and the …

“LISBON, JULY 2017: cApStAn @ the 70th WAPOR Conference AND @ the 7th ESRA Conference”

A few months back, a client said he had spent 20 minutes on our website and still wasn’t sure he understood what cApStAn does. I am genuinely grateful for this unsettling report: it gave us the right impulse to reflect on what we do, how we do it, why we do it, and to formulate it. …

“Less is more: cApStAn’s new website goes live today”