Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations

Dragoş Iliescu has been working with tests, testing, and test adaptation for more than twenty years as both a scientist and entrepreneur. He founded or contributed to several test publishers in Eastern Europe and with test adaptation publishers and firms all over the world. He co-edited the ITC Handbook of Testing and Assessment (2015) and is presently President of the International Test Commission (ITC), as well as associate editor of the European Journal for Psychological Assessment. This is his first monograph.

• Part I. Preliminary Issues in Test Adaptations: 1. What is test adaptation?; 2. Copyright and the protection of intellectual property; 3. Standards, guidelines, recommendations; Part II. Equivalence in Test Adaptations: 4. What is equivalence?; 5. Testing for equivalence and detecting bias; 6. Dealing with bias; Part III. Critical Phases in the Adaptation Process: 7. Translation designs; 8. Pretesting; 9. Norming; 10. Closing the process; 11. Examples of test adaptations.