Adaptação cultural do Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH) para escolares de ensino público

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Monique Herrera [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Escrita - Avaliação; Alunos; Testes e medidas educacionais; School children
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110549

This study aimed to translate and adapt, for the Brazilian culture, the Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH), and to investigate the performance of the students towards the Brazilian adaptation of the procedure. In order to achieve these goals, this study was divided into two steps: step 01 referring to adaptation and step 02 to investigation. The methodological procedure of step 01comprised: (1) Assessment of conceptual equivalence and items, and (2) assessment of semantic equivalence. As a result of step (1), it could be observed through bibliographic reviews and discussions with the members of the judgment committee, that the concepts referring to the items, were equivalent, for both cultures (British and Brazilian). In relation to step 2, it was realized the adaptation of one phrase, for the pangram in Portuguese language, and the employment of cursive handwriting, for the task “Alphabet writing”. The translation was validated and, therefore the Portuguese version was applied in a pilot study with 32 students; 4 students for each age group studied (9-16 years), confirming the easy applicability, due to the acceptability and comprehension of the students about the proposed tasks, without necessity of new semantic adjustments concerning the adapted version of the procedure. From these results, phase 02 was initiated, in which participated 658 students, of 05 publics schools, located in Marilia city (SP) and region, whose ages ranged from 09 to 16 years old and 11 months, and were divided into eight groups: 102 students in GI (09 years old), 99 in GII (10 years old), 86 in GIII (11 years old), 90 in GIV (12 years old), 87 in GV (13 years old), 68 in GVI (14 years old), 61 in GVII (15 years old) and 65 in GVIII (16 years old). Data collection was realized in groups, from 15 to 20 students, applying, in a single section (in maximum, 50 minutes), all five DASH tasks. Data were analyzed...