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The importance of testing the performance of questions in different contexts is critical. This chapter reports on an example of a question evaluation and testing process undertaken jointly by the Washington Group (WG) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of the Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The testing involved six Asian-Pacific countries and included two phases. The first phase comprised training in and conducting of a series of cognitive testing interviews of the WG Extended Set of questions. This was followed up by a small sample survey in two or three small areas in each country for the field testing of the questions. The chapter focuses on the process of training and testing and the benefits for the countries involved, rather than the actual testing results, which are reported in a separate chapter in this volume.
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This endeavor was undertaken under the financing of the UN Development Account project ‘Improvement of Disability Measurement and Statistics in Support of Biwako Millennium Framework and Regional Census Programme’ to be referred to as the WG/ESCAP project in the remainder of the chapter.
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Further information can also be found at www.unescap.org/stat/disability/Results-Testing-ESCAP-WG-Question-Disability.pdf
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ESCAP training manual: http://www.unescap.org/stat/disability/manual/index.asp
Guidelines for cognitive and pilot testing: http://www.unescap.org/stat/disability/Disability-question-testing-guidelines.pdf
Miller, K., Mont, D., Maitland, A., Altman, B., & Madans, J. (2010). Results of a cross-national structured cognitive interviewing protocol to test measures of disability. Quality & Quantity, 45(4), 801–815. doi:10.1007/s11135-010-9370-4.
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Schneider, M., Montes, A. (2016). The Asian Testing Experience. In: Altman, B. (eds) International Measurement of Disability. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 61. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28498-9_8
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