The NADINE Soft Skills Tests for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Testing of Their Psychometric Properties

Tountopoulou, Maria; Karaminas, Naoum; Drosos, Nikos; Vlachaki, Fotini

doi:10.4236/psych.2020.1112121

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“…With respect to the hard and soft skills, we employ neural networks algorithms, which are currently trained under different contexts to combine test results, action recognition, and speech recognition to an overall skill assessment. A first set of questionnaires is offered in multiple (currently in five) languages and thirty-five such skills are quantified reflecting cognitive ability, numeracy, and communication among other factors (Tountopoulou et al 2020(Tountopoulou et al , 2021b. Once a migrant has gone through the questionnaire, his/her skill vector is available and can be included in any document (e.g., CV that is automatically created by the platform) he/she intends to prepare for accompanying a job application.…”

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As the number of migrants arriving in Europe increases, host societies face the challenge of supporting their smooth integration, respecting their needs and recognizing their competencies. A key element for their new life is their integration in the labour market. This paper presents a platform which offers a set of tools that has been developed to support migrants to find their way into the labour market in EU countries. This set includes tools for skill assessment, artificial intelligence tools providing recommendations for jobs that match their personal skills and needs, tools for suggesting training paths and options to empower their candidacy, and easy-to-use tools for creating their CV/portfolio. We focus on the evaluation of this platform in real life settings in two countries (Greece and Spain), which is part of our co-creation approach. The results are very promising and show the satisfaction of the migrants. Additionally, they provide valuable insights for both those that develop such tools and those that can use them in their work/activities with the migrants (such as the non-governmental organisations and host authorities).

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“…The development of career assessment tools that are designed specifically for this population is crucial in order to provide career counselling services to vulnerable migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. The NADINE project, a three-year Horizon 2020 innovation project, aims at supporting migrant integration across Europe, and addresses the aforementioned issue by creating a series of tests designed to assess hard skills for migrants (the NADINE hard skills tests), refugees and asylum seekers in the framework of the broader scope to facilitate their labor market integration (see also Tountopoulou, Karaminas, Drosos, & Vlachaki, 2020). Employment and access to resources that facilitate work acquisition are considered as a prerequisite for smooth social inclusion of migrants and refugees in their new societies.…”

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Assessment of Migrants’, Refugees’ and Asylum Seekers’ Hard Skills: Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the NADINE Hard Skill Tests

Tountopoulou¹,

Drosos²,

Vlachaki³

2021

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The present paper aims at presenting the development of the NADINE Hard Skill Tests for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The NADINE tests are assessing the following skills: Observation, Language learning aptitude, Numeracy, Accuracy, Mechanical, ICT skill, Decision making, Problem solving, Dexterity, Spatial ability, Cognitive/analytical skills and Technical skills. The paper focuses on the linguistic and cultural adaptation and equivalency of the English, Farsi, French, Arabic and Spanish versions of the tests. To determine the degree to which the items, the response scale and the instructions are comprehensible and culturally relevant to the target population, four focus groups were formed, rating all items in terms of clarity and cultural relevance. The review resulted in minor changes. Furthermore, the Farsi, Arabic and French versions of the tests were administered to 120 migrants/refugees/asylum seekers and we calculated the difficulty level of each item and its contribution to the scale's internal reliability coefficient. Items with extremely low or high difficulty level and items that reduced reliability were eliminated. The remaining items had difficulty levels between 0.20 and 0.80 (with few exceptions), while all reliability coefficients were above 0.70 (the vast majority being above 0.80). Finally, the new versions of the test were administered to 427 participants and factor analyses were conducted to ensure that each test was measuring only one factor. Moreover, we calculated Tucker's congruence coefficient for each test to ensure cross-cultural equivalency. All Tucker's phi coefficients were above the 0.90 cut-off point. Results of this study support the case of linguistic and cultural equivalence between the different language versions of the tests, which constitute the NADINE Hard

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The NADINE Soft Skills Tests for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Testing of Their Psychometric Properties

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Experiences and Lessons Learnt from the Evaluation of ICT Tools for and with Migrants

Experiences and Lessons Learnt from the Evaluation of ICT Tools for and with Migrants

Assessment of Migrants’, Refugees’ and Asylum Seekers’ Hard Skills: Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the NADINE Hard Skill Tests

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