Mensuração de habilidades cognitivas preditoras do desenvolvimento de leitura em crianças através de jogos educacionais para dispositivos móveis.

Abstract

Due to the deficiency in the practice of screening for dyslexia in schools and the lack of computerized resources valid for the use of such, the present research aimed to improve the capacity for screening children in predictive reading tasks. For that, a test with game approach adapted from a psychometric instrument constructed and validated in Brazil was conceived, developed and analyzed. The developed game is administered by an adaptive selection algorithm and evaluates alliteration, segmentation, visual memory, and rhyming skills through Item Response Theory. This work presents an experiment in order to verify whether a proposed scale, the items bank and the algorithm can distinguish children with weak/strong ability. As a result, the game allowed time savings, reproduction facility, as well as more accurate results of children's abilities, identifying them as having limitations in reading.