Elaboración de una prueba piloto para evaluar trastornos específicos del aprendizaje en niños -TEDAN.

Abstract

The present research Project was developed with the objective of elaborating and validating a psychometric test that allows to evaluate the specific learning disorders in children, through the use of statistical procedures for giving as result an evaluation instrument. The implemented methodology was quantitative non-experimental exploratory cross-sectional and the chosen population were children who were in the grades from third to fifth of primary with ages among the 9 and 11 years old who belongs to the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia, to whom were given eleven exercises which were divided in sub-categories to measure the difficulty in reading, in written expression and math operations, for its analysis and interpretation was used the SPSS 24 program that projected a reliability coefficient according to Cronbach's alpha of 0.802. According with the gotten data was possible to conclude that the participants presented difficulties in different areas especially in quantitative reasoning in math and in the usage of tildes, the confusion of letters and the omission of punctuation marks in writing.