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Researchers find translation differences in French and English achievement tests

Education researchers have discovered that 32 to 55 percent of the questions on national achievement tests in Canada show discrepancies between the English and French versions. "It's disconcerting how often we're finding these [discrepancies]," said Dr. Mark Gierl, a University of Alberta education professor and Canada Research Chair in Educational Mesurement. Gierl believes that the discrepancies may occur because after the tests are translated -usually from English to French - no one evaluates the translated items to ensure that they measure mental capacity to the same degree as the original item.

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