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Direct linkTayebeh Azarmehr; Alireza Kordbagheri; Elham Sadat; Mohammadreza Kordbagheri – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The primary objectives of this study were to translate and assess the psychometric properties of the Principal Instructional Leadership Scale (PILS) within an Iranian population. The translation and cross-cultural adaptation process involved five stages: forward translation, translation synthesis, backward translation, expert committee review, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, High Schools, Measures (Individuals)
Anvar Dastbaz; Margherita Lanz; Emanuela Confalonieri; Fariba Soheili; Jonathan H. Ohrt – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2024
Assessing students' perceptions of the services provided by school counselors is crucial in promoting these services. However, there is no reliable scale for this assessment in the Persian language to date. Thus, this study aimed to translate and validate the School Counselor Noncognitive Skills Scale (SCNSS) among Iranian high school students.…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Student Attitudes, School Counselors, High School Students
Zahra Sheikhpour Ahandany; Yung-Ting Tsou; Reza Soltani Shal; Alireza Mohammadi Arya; Carolien Rieffe – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Social emotions such as shame and guilt are critical to social-emotional development in any culture because they help children and adolescents learn to adhere to the social rules and norms of their culture. However, most instruments that currently measure these emotions were validated only in samples from Western countries. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Translation, Test Validity
Mohamadi, Omid; Torabinezhad, Farhad; Ebadi, Abbas – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The Oral Motor Assessment Scale (OMAS) is a diagnostic tool used to assess the oral motor skills in individuals with neurological and neuromuscular disorders. This assessment was developed by Brazilian researchers and for the first time, its validity and reliability was examined in Brazil. The purpose of the present study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Download full textHanifehzadeh, Sepeedeh; Farahzad, Farzaneh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2016
The present study was designed basically to develop a psycho-motor mechanism scale based on the theory of translation competence proposed by PACTE (2003), and then to assess the validity and reliability of the constructed scale. In this quantitative research, after designing the scale, two translation tasks were given to 90 M.A. students majoring…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Tests, Test Construction, Test Reliability
Ahrari, Ramin; Jamali, Ramineh – Cogent Education, 2018
The present study aimed at investigating the effect of using collaborative translation tasks (CTTs) for teaching figurative language. The study also sought to explore the perceptions of the learners toward the efficacy of CTTs for learning figurative language through conducting interviews. The participants of the study included 60 English as a…
Descriptors: Translation, Cooperative Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
Alavi, Seyyed Mohammad; Ghaemi, Hamed – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
The present study investigates the construct validation of Translation Competence Questionnaire (TCQ) in the context of Iran. For this purpose, one hundred ninety seven EFL learners, whose major was translation studies at Tabaran, Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran, were asked to participate in the study and fill in the questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Translation, Competence
Hatam, Amir Hussein; Shafiei, Shilan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study was twofold. Firstly, it tried to investigate the relationship between the technical English proficiency of the students of Mechanical Engineering in the universities of Iran and their technical translation proficiency in translating technical texts of Mechanics. Secondly, it attempted to evaluate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English for Special Purposes, Translation, Language Proficiency
Ghonsooly, Behzad – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1993
Translation testing methodology has been criticized for its subjective character. No real strides have so far been made in developing an objective translation test. In this paper, certain detailed procedures including various phases of pretesting have been performed to achieve objectivity and scorability in translation testing methodology. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language)
