Update about CORE October 2021
A monthly update about a month after the last: things are looking up!
What is news?
- Kalle Kallas who did the hard work on the Estonian translation of the CORE-OM got his degree and the initial quantitative psychometric exploration looks good confirming the qualitative field testing and very careful translation. We will start on a paper about it early 2022 and Kalle is hoping to do the YP-CORE translation later in 2022. Still looking out for people to co-lead Latvian and Irish translations to complete the official EU languages.
- I know that Easha Shaid has submitted her dissertation on the work that takes the Urdu translation of the CORE-OM to the end. Again, we are planning a paper on the translation and a separate one on the quantitative psychometrics for 2022.
- It is possible that a translation into Setswana may happen.
- Clara’s Subsitio en español continues to develop. More on CORE in Latin America next month. I am hopeful that a subsite, i.e. a largely autonomous site about CORE in another language, written in that language, will follow the Spanish one soon. If you might want to be the editor for such a site contact me.
- Following the first last month, I have done the second of a series of blog posts around what’s involved in getting good translations of questionnaires done and the implications for psychometrics: Recent papers with perspectives on CORE translations (2): Yassin & Evans (2021).
- I have added a new FAQ with the very long title:Â Why this site has CSC cutting points for (at least some) measures but not names for more than two score levels. That’s actually a pointer to blog post on my non-CORE work site as the issues are not specific to CORE.Â
- Jorge Valdiviezo Oña in UDLA is doing a great job collecting up publications involving or about CORE which in due course will replace the long out of date list of publications here on the site.
- Juan Benavides, courtesy of UDLA, continues to help Clara and I with the site. We’re now in a phase of not particularly visible changes that should improve robustness and usability.
That’s it for now, more next month. Contact me if you have CORE related news you think should go here.
Original sent 25/10/2021, reconstructed 4/12/2024 when I realised that mailchimp had deleted their archive of posts on the list when they priced me out of using them! Author Chris Evans, licensed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
