Most online tools let you pick one or more languages to present to your participants. This usually covers the tool-supplied prompts and UI controls that the tool shows to participants during the tree test.
A single language
If you’re running your test in a single language, then your job is simple:
- Pick the tool language that you need, to cover the tool prompts and controls.
- Write your content (tree, tasks, and other text) in that same language.
Several languages
If you’re running your test in several languages, most tools will make you create a separate test for each language.
For each instance of the test:
- Pick the tool language that you need, to cover the tool prompts and controls.
- Write your content in that language.
- Make sure that any revisions you make (e.g. during your pilot testing) are applied to each instance of the test as needed.
- When it comes to analyzing the results later, you’ll need to manually compare the results between tests.
For more on multi-language testing, see Chapter 15 - Special considerations.
- Eventually move this to Special chapter.
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