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School Achievement Test: Normative data for a representative sample of elementary school children.

2012; American Psychological Association; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3922/j.psns.2012.2.05

1984-3054

Fernanda Oliveira‐Ferreira, Danielle de Souza Costa, Leticia Micheli, Lívia de Fátima Sílvia Oliveira, Pedro Pinheiro‐Chagas, Vítor Geraldi Haase,

Educational and Psychological Assessments

The present study established norms for the spelling and arithmetic subtests of the School Achievement Test (Teste do Desempenho Escolar [TDE]) in two Brazilian cities located in the state of Minas Gerais and compared the results with those obtained from the original normative sample.A stratified proportional sample of 1,034 students from Belo Horizonte and Mariana, from the 1 st to 6 th grades, was selected.The participants were assessed by the spelling and arithmetic subtests of the TDE.Significant differences were found between the results from Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, with moderate to high effect sizes.Significant differences were found in percentiles and classification parameters.The educational performance of the children from Minas Gerais was generally classified as less than expected (i.e., inferior) when the original norms were used as a classification parameter.Considering the high variability of educational data in different Brazilian regions, using norms for educational assessment based on only one Brazilian region is inappropriate.