A Mexican Version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

Adapting a receptive vocabulary test for preschool‐aged Greek‐speaking children

“…For example, the Greek word /ma'ϴitria/ would be translated into English as female student of primary/secondary education . Another problem is that a word may represent one meaning in one language but multiple more or less related meanings in another (Hymes, 1970; Simon & Joiner, 1976). For example, the translation equivalent of the Greek word κoριóϚ/ko'rᶨos/ in English is bug (as in insect ), but bug is also used as a verb in English to mean either to wiretap or to annoy .…”

“…Also, after words are chosen, adaptation typically means reordering the items in the adapted test, since relative item difficulty may differ for even very good translation equivalents (Roca, 1955; Renzulli & Paulus, 1969). As Clark noted (Clark, 1965, cited in Simon & Joiner, 1976) when developing an adapted version of a Spanish test in Portuguese, test equivalence was achieved by matching item reliability and item difficulty, and then by aiming for a good match in the graded relative order of items across the two tests.…”