Finding the best fit: the adaptation and translation of the Performance Indicators for Primary Schools for the South African context

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dc.contributor.authorArcher, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorScherman, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorCoe, Robert
dc.contributor.authorHowie, Sarah J.
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-21T08:52:36Z
dc.date.available2016-06-21T08:52:36Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractReform and improvement are imperative in the current South African education system. Monitoring of school and learner achievement is an essential for establishing praxis for school improvement. Diversity of culture and South Africa’s 11 official languages make it difficult to develop valid monitoring systems. Limited resources, time constraints and the need to redress neglect of large portions of the education infrastructure from the apartheid era make it problematic to develop new monitoring systems for all official languages. Adaptation and translation of existing international monitoring instruments provide alternative solutions to developing new monitoring systems. Adaptation and translation of existing instruments is a daunting process, which balances statistical analysis, translation processes and user and expert evaluations. We investigate how to balance these different processes in order to create an instrument that provides valid data for educational decisions. The processes utilised in the adaptation and translation of the vocabulary subtest of the Performance Indicators for Primary Schools (PIPS) test for the South African context are used to illustrate the complex interplay between user and expert input as well as psychometric rigour. It is hoped this paper will contribute to the development of the necessary instrument adaptation skills in South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCoe, R., Scherman, V., Archer, E., & Howie, S. (2010). Finding the best fit: the adaptation and translation of the Performance Indicators for Primary Schools for the South African context. Perspectives in Education, 28(1), 77-88.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-2236 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/3150
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectExpert and user collaborationen_ZA
dc.subjectInstrument adaptation and contextualisationen_ZA
dc.subjectRasch analysisen_ZA
dc.subjectTranslation of assessment instrumentsen_ZA
dc.titleFinding the best fit: the adaptation and translation of the Performance Indicators for Primary Schools for the South African contexten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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