Holistic assessment of consecutive interpretation

Interpreting ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Bin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Grade Student ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Tentative Model ◽  
Holistic Assessment

Abstract The article aims to show how interpreter trainers holistically grade student performances. For this purpose, experimental rating sessions were held for four undergraduate interpreter trainers. The raters were asked to think aloud their quality judgments while holistically assessing six recordings of consecutive interpretation. Their concurrent verbal reports, along with reflective reports, interview transcripts, and video recordings of computer screen activity, were collected and analysed in detail. Findings revealed various facets of interpreting performance assessment, including what procedures the raters followed, what aspects of the performance they focused on, what criteria they depended on for their judgment decisions, and why two ratings of the same performance were divergent. This article also presents a tentative model for holistic rating of consecutive interpretation.

scholarly journals Foundation in Law students’ reading awareness of the case law genre

F1000Research ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Suhaila Abdullah ◽  
Sareen Kaur Bhar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Case Law ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Genre Awareness ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
University Level

Background: A text of different genre might pose a different problem to students and different genre requires different approach in understanding and comprehending it. Developing the expertise in reading legal texts at an early stage of learning will be very beneficial to the students of law.  This study examines the level of pre-university/foundation in law students’ awareness for the case law genre, and the aim of this study is to investigate the extent of awareness of the case law genre among the foundation in law students.  Methods: Five students who were pursuing their study in the foundation/pre-university level were selected as the subjects in this study.  Qualitative data were obtained through the think-aloud procedure and questionnaire which was administered after the think-aloud procedure. The transcription of each student’s verbal reports was scrutinised for evidence of genre awareness while the answers given in the questionnaire were used to support the findings of the study.  Genre analysis of 4-Move structure was used to identify the students’ level of awareness. Results: The findings indicate that the students were aware of the case law genre. However, they displayed a mixed-level of awareness. Conclusion: It is hoped that this study can provide some insights into the reading behaviour of law students especially when reading case law. Knowing and understanding the case law structure is integral for law students, and analysing students understanding of reading case law can help both the students and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) educators.

scholarly journals Frameworks for health systems performance assessment: how comprehensive is Ghana’s holistic assessment tool?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Kumah ◽  
Samuel E. Ankomah ◽  
Adam Fusheini ◽  
Emmanuel Kusi Sarpong ◽  
Eric Anyimadu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Holistic Assessment ◽  
Health Systems Performance

Introspektion unter der Lupe. Phänomenologische und hermeneutische Ansätze im empirischen Vergleich mit Think Aloud und IPDR

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-319
Author(s):  
Karolina Jezewska ◽  
Kasia Jezewska ◽  
John Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Job Interviews ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This essay presents a portion of a long-term project designed to develop, refine and test methods that can be employed in research in Translation Studies. The research depicted here is a joint project between Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland) and Technische Hochschule in Cologne, Germany. In the spring of 2014, eight students from each university took part in a project designed to compare the relative strengths and weaknesses – pedagogical as well as epistemological – of two methodological pairs: one being the phenomenological method and the hermeneutical analysis; the other was think-aloud and IPDR (Integrated Problem and Decision Reporting). The students were asked to perform role plays, four of which took place in Poznań, and four of which took place in Germany, which simulated job interviews or employee evaluations. Although the long-term goal of the project is to enhance introspective methods for use in Translation Studies, for methodological reasons this joint project deals medially with role plays and focuses on face-to-face interaction. Upon completion of the role plays, the authors of this essay used both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze extensively the various reports from the role plays and to compare these reports with the video recordings made of the role plays. In this article we discuss the design of the role plays, the methods used to analyze them, and our conclusions.

scholarly journals Saudi Students’ Translation Strategies in an Undergraduate Translator Training Program

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Atari
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Saudi Students ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Think Aloud Protocol ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Translator Training

Abstract This paper reports on the findings of an empirical study conducted on the strategies employed by a sample of undergraduate Saudi translator trainees while translating. The study uses the think-aloud protocol (i.e. the subjects’ verbal reports of what’s going on in their heads while translating) as a technique for soliciting the data. The researcher has found that the strategies of ST and TT monitoring at the word or sentence level are employed most frequently (i.e. language-based strategies). Other important strategies, namely text contextualization and inferencing and reasoning are the least frequently used (i.e. knowledge-based strategies). Hence, the need for training translator trainees in the use of these strategies as well as the recognition and utilization of larger textual elements.

Students' Knowledge of Text Structure

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Garner ◽  
Mark G. Gillingham
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Computer Screen

Fifteen students in each of grades 5 and 7 were presented with seven sentences on a computer screen. They were asked to construct a good paragraph and a bad paragraph and then to report what makes a good paragraph good. Products and verbal reports were scored for topical relatedness, superordination, and cohesion, three important structural properties of text. The relation between knowledge reported and knowledge demonstrated was weak for two of the properties. Students were only moderately knowledgeable about topical relatedness and superordination, and unknowledgeable about cohesion.

scholarly journals Effect of expertise on diagnosis accuracy, non-technical skills and thought processes during simulated high-fidelity anaesthetist scenarios

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Allistair P McRobert ◽  
Simon J Mercer ◽  
David Raw ◽  
Jeff Goulding ◽  
A Mark Williams
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Expert Performance ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Diagnosis Accuracy ◽  
And Performance

BackgroundThe expert performance approach can be used to examine expertise during representative field-based tasks, while collecting process-tracing measures such as think-aloud verbal reports. Collecting think-aloud verbal reports provides an insight into the cognitive mechanisms that support performance during tasks.MethodWe examined the thought processes and performance of anaesthetists during simulated environments. Verbal reports of thinking and the anaesthetists’ non-technical skills (ANTS) were recorded to examine cognitive processes, non-technical behaviours and diagnosis accuracy during fully immersive, high-fidelity medical scenarios. Skilled (n=6) and less skilled (n=9) anaesthetists were instructed to respond to medical scenarios experienced in theatre.ResultsSkilled participants demonstrated higher diagnosis accuracy and ANTS scores compared to less skilled participants. Furthermore, skilled participants engaged in deeper thinking and verbalised more evaluation, prediction and deep planning statements.ConclusionsThe ability to employ an effective cognitive processing strategy, more efficient non-technical behaviours and superior diagnosis is associated with superior performance in skilled participants.

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