EACOL (Scale of Evaluation of Reading Competence by the Teacher): Evidence of concurrent and discriminant validity

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 443-454

  Cogo Moreira, Hugo ^a   Ploubidis, George B ^b   de Ávila, Clara Regina Brandão ^a   Mari, Jair de Jesus ^a   Pinheiro, Angela Maria Vieira ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assessment; Latent class analysis; Reading difficulties; School children; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; HUMAN; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; READING; SCALE OF EVALUATION OF READING COMPETENCE BY THE TEACHER; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; VALIDATION STUDY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

EID: 84868118494     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S36196     Document Type: Article

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