Testing techniques and quality control practices for the examination of community interpreter trainers

Wiedenmayer, Anthi (author), Grammenidis, Simos (author)

Based on the theoretical framework of assessment and evaluation, analytically presented in the previous chapter of this volume, as well as on the protocols and the codes of ethics and conduct from different professional organisations worldwide, this chapter provides a selection of analytical tools and techniques which are developed for the final examination of trainers of community inter-preters within the framework of the TRAMIG project. The test construct is based on the competences of a community interpreter and includes a detailed testing of the interpreting competence. This includes the skills in different modes of interpreting, i.e. consecutive, simultaneous, sight translation and remote interpreting, the skills in managing the situa-tional setting, i.e. the discourse, and the ethics and conduct of a community interpreter. These skills and sub-skills are assessed in both written and oral tests, while the candidate has to pass the written form in order to proceed with the oral exam-ination. Additionally, different techniques are presented for testing the peda-gogical competence of a community interpreter trainer, e.g. the importance of giving concrete feedback to the trainees including the carefully chosen tasks to be achieved at every step of the training programme.

• Language: English
• Keywords: TRAMIG project, training public service interpreters, trainers’ as-sessment, trainers’ evaluation, testing techniques, public service interpreters’ competences, quality control
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 258-280
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125117
• Publication date in RUL: 04.03.2021

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Teacher education for community interpreting and intercultural mediation : selected chapters
• Editors: Nike Kocijančič-Pokorn, Maurizio Viezzi, Tatjana Radanović Felberg
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete = Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts : Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje = National Institute of Public Health
• Year: 2020
• ISBN: 978-961-06-0402
• COBISS.SI-ID: 39104003

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 04.03.2021

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+