Heyuun is an undergraduate from China taking a research methods course. She gets permission to collect data over the Internet from her family and friends back in China. However, most of her potential participants do not read English, so she takes the questionnaire her group members are using and translates it into Mandarin. She then has another one of her friends from China take her Chinese translation and translate it back into English to see if the two are equivalent. What type of translation is Heyuun conducting?

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Heyuun is conducting translation/backtranslation, which involves translating a document into another language and then translating it back into the original language to check for equivalence.

Heyuun Is an Undergraduate from China Taking a Research Methods