Tele-avaliação: validação da bateria de avaliação de leitura e escrita (BALE) on-line

• Autor(a) principal: Diana, Cleber Aparecido
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22583
• topic: leitura; escrita; avaliação; computador; Internet; literacy; assessment; computer; Internet; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The development of assessment tools for literacy involves multidisciplinary teams and is an important research field in Psychology. Technological advances have permitted devising new Internet-mediated psychological assessment tools for the school context. Controlled procedures are necessary to evaluate the efficacy and quality of such instruments. The aim of this study is to validate five tests of BALE On-Line for children in the Elementary School. The study assessed 964 students (463 girls) with mean age of 9,8 years old (SD=1,77), from 1st to 4th grades in the Elementary level. The students were from three private and two public schools in São Paulo Metropolitan area. The test was administered through the Internet with automatic result recording. Results showed that scores increased significantly over successive school levels as well as the execution time decreased significantly, except from 3rd to 4th grade in both measures. Cluster analyses identified five profiles for the students in the 1st and 2nd grades, and three profiles in the 3rd and 4th grades. The patterns revealed more difficulties in reading and writing among students from public schools. Correlation analyses showed positive correlations between all the five tests. The BALE On-line is recommended to be used in long distance assessment of literacy skills (reading and writing) in Brazilian students from Elementary School.