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TRADUÇÃO TRANSCULTURAL DO MINNESOTA HANDWRITING ASSESSMENT PARA O CONTEXTO BRASILEIRO

2017; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SÃO CARLOS; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4322/0104-4931.ctoao0728

2238-2860

Adriane G. P. Milani, Cynthia Yukiko Hiraga, Ana Maria Pellegrini,

Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques

Introduction: Writing is a complex human hand skill and its assessment is one of the several challenges encountered by teachers in the literacy process.Objective: The present study aimed to validate and adapt transculturally, for the Brazilian context, the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment (MHA), an instrument developed by Judith Reisman.Method: A total of 448 children enrolled in the 2nd and 3rd school years from the public school system and two school teachers who served as examiners, participated in the present study.The validation method utilized was the "Cross-Cultural Adaptation" and it was applied for the validation of the D'Nealian style.Results: First, it was verified the equivalence of concepts, semantics and resulting idiomatic translation and retranslation of the MHA to Portuguese language.Then, teachers were asked to use the adapted MHA instrument.The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for the test-retest reliability was 0.92 for readability, 0.90 for form, 0.99 for alignment and 0.89 for spacing, being significant in all categories.About the inter-rater reliability, the ICC was 0.89 for readability, 0.99 for alignment, 0.98 for size, and 0.90 for spacing, reaching level of significance in these categories.The ICC 0.53 of form category did not reach level of significance what can be related to variability of the handwriting pattern of the Brazilian children.Conclusion: The cross-cultural adaptation for the Portuguese language and the satisfactory results obtained from the validation of the D'Nealian print style of handwriting assessment allowed its use in the Brazilian System of Education with restriction to the category of form.