Coeficiente de Progressão da Fluência de Leitura no Acompanhamento de Escolares do Ensino Fundamental I / Coefficient of Progression of Reading Fluency in the Monitoring of Students of Elementary School

RESUMO: A fluência de leitura é tida como uma meta no desenvolvimento da leitura oral e pode, de forma mais rápida e objetiva, indicar a evolução do desempenho dos estudantes. A Base Nacional Comum Curricular do Brasil prevê que, entre o 3º e 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental, o escolar deve ler de forma autônoma e fluente com textualidade adequada. Assim sendo, o objetivo deste estudo é verificar se a fluência leitora pode ser utilizada como um indicador de competência com o avanço do ano letivo para os estudantes do Ensino Fundamental I. Trata-se de um estudo observacional, longitudinal e descritivo. Participaram 36 crianças matriculadas do 3º ao 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental, sendo 18 do público-alvo da Educação Especial ou contemplados pela política no Distrito Federal, Brasil. A fluência de leitura textual foi avaliada com intervalo de cinco meses com as variáveis Taxa de leitura e Acurácia. A comparação intergrupo demonstrou resultados superiores para o Grupo de Controle em ambas a variáveis, já a intragrupo indicou evolução estatisticamente significante somente para o Grupo de Interesse. Foi desenvolvido o Coeficiente de Progressão, cujos resultados mostraram evolução nas medidas de fluência de leitura. Assim, a fluência de leitura parece ser um indicador de competência de leitura para a Educação Especial.

ABSTRACT: Reading fluency is seen as a goal in the development of oral reading and can, more quickly and objectively, indicate the evolution of student performance. The National Common Curricular Base of Brazil provides that between the 3rd and 5th grade of Elementary School the student must read autonomously and fluently with adequate textuality. Thus, the objective of this study is to verify whether reading fluency can be used as a competency indicator with the advancement of the school year for Elementary School students. This is an observational, longitudinal and descriptive study. Thirty-six children enrolled from the 3rd to the 5th grade of Elementary School participated, 18 of whom were the target population of Special Education or contemplated by the policy in the Distrito Federal, Brazil. The fluency of textual reading was assessed with an interval of 5 months with the variables reading rate and accuracy. The intergroup comparison showed superior results for the Control Group in both variables, whereas the intragroup indicated a statistically significant evolution only for the Interest Group. The Progression Coefficient was developed, whose results showed an evolution in the reading fluency measures. Thus, reading fluency seems to be an indicator of reading competence for Special Education.

Memoria de Trabajo e Inteligencia General Fluida en un Grupo de Escolares del Nivel Primario / Working Memory and Fluid General Intelligence in a Children Scholar Group

Resumen El presente estudio tiene dos objetivos: a) Construir un Test de Capacidad de Lectura -TCL, para medir el nivel de memoria de trabajo (MT) y b) analizar la relación entre MT y la inteligencia general fluida -Gf (medido a través de Test de Matrices Progresivas de Raven, para niños), en un grupo de 124 niños lectores escolarizados del nivel primario. Dado el carácter primordial de este segundo objetivo, se procedió a emplear el método correlacional, que sugiere la medición y descripción de las variables MT y Gf, cuyo índice correlacional establece el nivel de dicha relación. En cuanto a la justificación de la presente tesis, se sustenta en la constatación empírica de la presencia previa de la MT, como un factor explicativo de la varianza que sufre la Gf. La validez de contenido del nuevo TCL se estableció mediante el criterio de juicio de expertos; mientras que, la confiabilidad del mismo instrumento está dentro del nivel de confianza y seguridad. Finalmente, se puede afirmar que la relación entre MT y Gf es sustancial, en la medida que sugiere que la MT es un factor importante que explica la varianza de los puntajes Gf.

Abstract The present study have two objectives: a) Elaborate a Reading Span Test -RST, that measure the level of working memory (WM), and b) analyze the relation between WM and fluid general intelligence -Gf (measured with Raven´s Progressive Matrices Test, for children), in a group of 124 children of the primary school level. The first objective was reached according to the theoretical and techniques suggestions offered by Daneman & Carpenter (1980) in order to construct a new version of RST, sustained by WM model, originally proposed by Baddeley & Hitch (1974). WM is a cognitive system of limited capacity, in which acts simultaneously, storage and processing information mechanisms. This cognitive system is involved in diverse complex cognitive activities, such as, reading comprehension, learning, and reasoning. The content validity of the new RST was done through expert judgment; while the reliability of same instrument was got accord Kuder/ Richardson-20 coefficient r 11 = 0.87, that guarantee the reliability of the instrument. Respect to the second objective, it was found a coefficient of correlation Eta2 = 0.525, which means that relation is substantial, therefore confirms that WM is an important factor by which cause the variance of scores of the Gf is 27.6%.

The role of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming in the prediction of reading difficulties in portuguese / O papel da consciência fonológica e da nomeação automatizada rápida na predição de dificuldades de leitura em português

This study investigated the contribution of phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) to the persistence of beginning reading difficulties in Portuguese. The study was longitudinal and involved 13 children who had shown little progress in learning to read during their 1st school year, and 13 children with typical reading development. At the beginning of the study, when participants were, on average, six years and nine months of age, their ability to read and spell words, and their PA and RAN skills were assessed. One year later, the children who had shown difficulties in learning to read were divided into two groups, based on their progress in learning to read during the course of the study: a group with persistent reading difficulties and a group whose difficulties had been overcome. Results showed that both groups performed equally poorly and below controls on the PA tasks at the beginning of the study. In contrast, only the children with persistent reading difficulties performed more poorly than controls on the RAN tasks at that time. (AU)

Este estudo investigou a contribuição da consciência fonológica (CF) e da nomeação automatizada rápida (RAN) para a persistência de dificuldades na aprendizagem inicial da leitura em português. O estudo foi longitudinal e envolveu 13 crianças que haviam apresentado dificuldades na aprendizagem da leitura durante o ano da alfabetização e 13 crianças com desenvolvimento típico da leitura. A habilidade de ler e escrever palavras, a CF e a RAN foram avaliadas no final do ano de alfabetização, quando as crianças tinham, em média, seis anos e nove meses de idade. Um ano mais tarde, as crianças que haviam apresentado dificuldades na alfabetização foram divididas em dois grupos, com base em seu progresso na habilidade de ler palavras ao longo estudo: um grupo de crianças com dificuldades persistentes e um grupo cujas dificuldades iniciais haviam sido superadas. Os resultados mostraram que ambos os grupos apresentaram déficits na CF no início do estudo. Por outro lado, apenas as crianças com dificuldades persistentes de leitura manifestaram déficits na RAN naquela ocasião. (AU)

Schema theory in culturing medical English reading ability of medical postgraduate / 中华医学教育探索杂志

For better adaptation to clinical work and scientific research as well as self-development,medical postgraduates are required to improve their reading ability to harvest information from medical English articles.Constructing formal schema based on linguistic schema and enriching content schema can significantly enhance medical English reading ability,according to schema theory and education practice.Therefore,the learning mode was explored based on schema theory and this theory was applied in practice to elevate reading ability by means of reading report.