طراحي و معياريابي آزمون تشخيص خواندن

Developing and standardization of a diagnostic reading test

Introduction: This paper is a report on the development, structure and content of a diagnostic reading test. The target population of this test is persian children who have problems in learning reading and may be considered as dyslexic. This diagnostic test is the first reading test developed for the native speakers ofpersian. Materials &Methods: The theoretical framework of the test is based on two well- established reading tests for the English speaking children, namely Durrell Analysis ofReading and Neale Analysis ofReadingAbility. The linguistic content of the subtests is selected from the vocabulary and texts of the textbook used in the primary schools. Both the vocabulary and the sentencesofthe parrallel passeges were controlled for frequency, phonemic/graphemic regularity, syllable structure, morphol- ogy, syntax and semantics. They were also controlled for value judgement by two linguistics and three first grader teachers.The first version ofthe test is normed on 605 boy andgirl first graders from different educational sectors and schools selected randomly.The method used in this research is cross- sectional, descriptive- analytic and the data analysis is based on pearson, and mann-whitney u. Findings: Reliability of the reading passages is calculated based on parrallel forms (~%90) and validity is based on content validity.This test has a supplementary section including spelling, graphem/phoneme correspondness, nonword reading, irregular word reading, and copy subtests. Conclusion: Considering high reliabilityand precise validation of the testit can be used to diagnose the dyslexia and related reading impairements.