Translation Competence Rubric Quiz

Purpose and Function of a Rubric

• A rubric is used to measure the intended construct and score it by graders.
• Its primary purpose is not to rank students against each other, but to assess and score the construct intended to be measured.
• The development of a rubric ensures that the construct is not only assessed but also scored by graders.

Features of a Rubric

• A rubric provides descriptive statements of behaviors that candidates may exhibit in a particular sub-component.
• It does not focus solely on macro-linguistic competence in translation.
• The weight of each sub-component in the rubric is not decided by individual graders.

Translation Competence

• A competent professional translator must demonstrate control of cohesive and textual devices in the target language.
• A competent professional translator must exhibit an understanding of socio-cultural aspects of the target language.
• Using resource materials is a factor in the demonstration of translation competence according to the rubric.

Assessment and Scoring

• A scoring rubric is not developed after the assessment has taken place.
• The categories selected in the creation of the rubric are equal to the sub-components of the construct defined above.
• Sub-categories have not been collapsed and unified into a single category to increase the number of categories that graders must rate.
• The terms used in the rubric are aligned with terminology generally used by graders.

Translation Assessment Criteria

• Source text meaning measures the extent to which the candidate's response reflects an adequate understanding of the themes and rhetoric of the source text.
• Target text style and cohesion reflect the candidate's knowledge of how texts are linked and organized into documents in the target language genre.
• Situational appropriateness measures the candidate's ability to employ the functional and socio-cultural aspects of the target language in their translation.

Purpose and Function of a Rubric

• A rubric is used to measure the intended construct and score it by graders.
• Its primary purpose is not to rank students against each other, but to assess and score the construct intended to be measured.
• The development of a rubric ensures that the construct is not only assessed but also scored by graders.

Features of a Rubric

• A rubric provides descriptive statements of behaviors that candidates may exhibit in a particular sub-component.
• It does not focus solely on macro-linguistic competence in translation.
• The weight of each sub-component in the rubric is not decided by individual graders.

Translation Competence

• A competent professional translator must demonstrate control of cohesive and textual devices in the target language.
• A competent professional translator must exhibit an understanding of socio-cultural aspects of the target language.
• Using resource materials is a factor in the demonstration of translation competence according to the rubric.

Assessment and Scoring

• A scoring rubric is not developed after the assessment has taken place.
• The categories selected in the creation of the rubric are equal to the sub-components of the construct defined above.
• Sub-categories have not been collapsed and unified into a single category to increase the number of categories that graders must rate.
• The terms used in the rubric are aligned with terminology generally used by graders.

Translation Assessment Criteria

• Source text meaning measures the extent to which the candidate's response reflects an adequate understanding of the themes and rhetoric of the source text.
• Target text style and cohesion reflect the candidate's knowledge of how texts are linked and organized into documents in the target language genre.
• Situational appropriateness measures the candidate's ability to employ the functional and socio-cultural aspects of the target language in their translation.