Internal Structure, Invariance, and Brief Version of the Word and Pseudowords Reading Test (LPI) in Children
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Reading, Dual-route model., Transparent Orthography, Neuropsychological Assessment, Computerized TestAbstract
Reading is an essential skill for academic development, and its evaluation and monitoring throughout elementary school in Brazil are relevant for identifying difficulties, promoting interventions, and assessing responses to them. Oral reading assessment in Brazilian children can be interdisciplinary evaluated by the isolated Word and Pseudoword Reading Test, LPI (Salles et al., 2017). This study investigates the LPI's internal structure, assessing the suitability of unidimensional and bidimensional models via Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), the equivalence between paper-and-pencil and digital modalities, and the creation of a brief version based on Item Response Theory (IRT). The results indicate a better fit for a unidimensional model, suggesting that, in transparent orthographies like Brazilian Portuguese, the distinction between phonological and lexical routes may be less evident for children from the 1st to 7th grades of Elementary School. The invariance analysis demonstrated equivalence between the application modalities, validating the test's digital use. The reduced version, with 20 items, maintained the original instrument's psychometric robustness. These findings contribute to neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and education by validating a suitable test for large-scale assessment, promoting the identification of reading difficulties. The computerized LPI represents an advancement for accessible and efficient evaluations, ensuring greater equity in the diagnosis of school difficulties.
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