translation quality assessment in iranian universities:‎ a qualitative study

this qualitative study attempted to determine the approaches of select ‎iranian translator educators for assessing students’ translation quality. so, ‎a purposive sample of twelve experienced, specialist translator educators‎at major universities across iran was invited for interviews. the analysis ‎of the interview data revealed the approaches they advocated and so ‎applied to assessment of students’ translation quality. the iranian ‎translator educators’ approaches were then compared and contrasted with ‎distinguished models and approaches to translation assessment. using the ‎procedure of grounded theory, a method of qualitative data analysis, the‎interview data was coded and analyzed. the results showed that there are ‎many similarities and common areas among the translator educators in ‎approaching students’ translation quality assessment. to a great extent, ‎these approaches conform to the approaches and models of translation ‎quality assessment presented by international tqa theorists and that the ‎only difference lies in the degree of importance of the assessment criteria ‎depending on different translation courses, the text type and genre‏.‏