Adjusting bilingual ratings by retest reliability improves estimation of translation quality

• Main Authors: Wood, Dustin, Qiu, Lin, Lu, Jiahui, Lin, Han, Tov, William
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Scale Translation; Translation Quality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137281
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The quality of cross-language scale translations is often explored by having bilingual participants complete the scale in both languages and then correlating their scores. However, low cross-language correlations can be observed due to score unreliability rather than due to poor scale translation. M...