Adjusting Bilingual Ratings by Retest Reliability Improves Estimation of Translation Quality

• Main Authors: WOOD, Dustin, QIU, Lin, LU, Jiahui, LIN, Han, TOV, William
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: scale translation; translation quality; scale reliability; bilingual; within-session retest; Multicultural Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3845; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5103/viewcontent/wood_et_al_2018_adjusting_bilingual_ratings_by_retest_reliability_improves_estimation_of_translation_quality.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management 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...