title: Development of Listening Comprehension Tests with Narrative and Expository Texts for Portuguese Students.
abstract: This investigation aimed to develop and collect psychometric data for two tests assessing listening comprehension of Portuguese students in primary school: the Test of Listening Comprehension of Narrative Texts (TLC-n) and the Test of Listening Comprehension of Expository Texts (TLC-e). Two studies were conducted. The purpose of study 1 was to construct four test forms for each of the two tests to assess first, second, third and fourth grade students of the primary school. The TLC-n was administered to 1042 students, and the TLC-e was administered to 848 students. The purpose of study 2 was to test the psychometric properties of new items for the TLC-n form for fourth graders, given that the results in study 1 indicated a severe lack of difficult items. The participants were 260 fourth graders. The data were analysed using the Rasch model. Thirty items were selected for each test form. The results provided support for the model assumptions: Unidimensionality and local independence of the items. The reliability coefficients were higher than .70 for all test forms. The TLC-n and the TLC-e present good psychometric properties and represent an important contribution to the learning disabilities assessment field.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
authors.forename: Fernanda Leopoldina
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Viana
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
authors.forename: Iolanda
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Salamanca (Spain).
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Prieto
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brandão
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cadime
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D011174:Portugal; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: item response theory; learning disabilities; listening comprehension assessment; narrative and expository texts; vertical scaling