Weekend Linguistic Challenge: Designing a Symbol Translation Task
What happens when a child is asked to learn a language through meaningless symbols, remember their assigned meaning, and then combine them to “read” a sentence? Except there is a problem: the sentence structure belongs to a different language.
How to Adapt Proverbs Without Changing What You Measure: A PANSS Case Study
When a proverb becomes part of an assessment, it retains its role as a cultural expression, but it also becomes a measurement stimulus. An item designed to generate evidence about a particular aspect of cognitive functioning: abstract thinking.
Adaptive Behavior Is Universal. The Behaviors Used to Measure It Are Not.
Adaptive behavior instruments measure how individuals function in daily life. The domains are universal, but the behaviors used to assess them vary across cultures.
