EVIDENCE OF VALIDANCE BETWEEN INSTRUMENTS FOR THE EVALUATION OF PHONOLOGICAL CONSCIENCE

Phonological Awareness; Evaluation Instruments; Shelf life.

The objective of this study was to obtain evidence of validity of criteria and convergent validity between three phonological awareness instruments, namely, the Phonological Consciousness Assessment Guide (RACF), the Phonological Consciousness by Oral Production (PCFO) and Phonological Awareness: Sequential Assessment Tool (CONFIAS). Alongside this, we tried to identify possible differences between the children evaluated with regard to sex, school year and age; to verify the intensity of the correlation between the TDE - Reading Subtest, the instruments of evaluation of the Phonological Consciousness and its subtests; and highlight the instruments in which the children presented better and worse results. Although phonological awareness is pointed out in several researches as one of the precursor abilities to acquire reading and writing, and a successful evaluation of this ability can indicate to the teachers and professionals of the area any difficulties of the students in this learning, it is verified that Brazil lacks a reflection on the instruments that already exist, above all, a work that presents evidence of validity and the convergence indexes between instruments. A total of 131 children, both sexes, between 6 and 8 years of age, attending the 1st to 3rd year of elementary school in a municipal school in Seropédica - RJ participated in the study. Data collection took place during the first half of 2018, with the instruments being applied individually in a room provided by the school. The results showed that there is validity of criterion in the three instruments and convergent validity among them, being the relationship of greater intensity between the PCFO and the CONFIAS. We found that there were differences between the sexes only in the RACF and in the TRIAS rhyme identification subtest, in which the girls presented better results and that all the instruments discriminated the children by school year and by age. In addition, the phonological awareness instrument that had the best correlation with reading was PCFO and the subtests that best correlated with reading were phonemes. Finally, the easiest and most difficult instrument for our sample was RACF and PCFO, respectively.