Sometimes you will be asked to complete this type of assignment. Here's how!
What is a Quality Rating Assignment?
- A Quality Rating assignment considers the 4 qualities of a good translation.
- We will ask you if you think a translated passage is:
- TRUSTWORTHY
- UNDERSTANDABLE
- APPEALING
- APPROPRIATE
- You will read chapters from different Bible books
- You will be asked to provide two ratings:
- an overall number rating to each verse in the chapter
- a number rating to each whole chapter for each of the 4 qualities of a good translation
Why do we have you do a Quality Rating assignment?
- Your quality ratings will help us to see if there is an increase or decrease in the quality of the machine translations
- We will be able to compare the quality ratings for early machine translations with quality ratings for later machine translations
- Your quality ratings are important because they help us prove that there is improvement in the quality of the machine translation
- Improving the quality of the machine translation is important because it will affect the overall quality of the translated material
- Also, the better the machine translation is, the less editing will be required to produce a quality translation
Assignment View
- Your team will receive a folder with files for each book's chapters that will be rated
- The assignment for each book has two parts:
- Part 1: overall rating of each verse in the chapter
- Part 2: rating the whole chapter on each of the 4 translation qualities
Assignment Part 1
When you open a file for one book, it will look like this:
Instructions:
1) Read the source text first
2) Read the translation next to it
3) Think about the four qualities of a good translation, and then give an overall rating for each verse between 1-5
- Rating '1' means a low, poor-quality overall translation
- Rating '5' means a perfect overall translation
4) Put your rating 1-5 in the yellow highlighted column next to each verse
Assignment Part 2
To go to Part 2 of the Quality Ratings Assignment, click on the tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet:
Quality Ratings Assignment Part 2 looks like this:
Instructions:
1) Re-read the source text and the translation of the chapter provided in Part 1
2) Read the questions in Part 2 carefully, and then select 'Yes,' 'Somewhat,' or 'No' from the options provided
3) If you would like to provide an explanation for your rating, you can leave a note in the available space
Completing the Assignment
- Follow the instructions for Part 1 and Part 2 for each book file provided
- This is meant to be a team assignment
- Read the passages together and discuss what overall rating should be given to each verse
- Read the passages together and discuss what rating for each translation quality should be given to the whole chapter (one rating for 'Trustworthy,' one rating for 'Understandable,' etc.)
Congratulations - you now know how to complete a Quality Ratings Assignment!