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Titre :	Development and validity of the Arabic Handwriting Assessment for elementary school students
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Abeer Salameh-Matar ; Nasir Basal ; Baraah Nashef-Tali ; Naomi Weintraub
Année de publication :	2016
Article en page(s) :	p. 212-219
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	écriture  évaluation  langage  enseignement primaire  fiabilité  validité
Résumé :	Introduction Assessing handwriting performance is important for developing effective intervention programmes. We describe the development of the Arabic Handwriting Assessment for elementary school students (A-HAT) and its initial psychometric properties. In its development, the unique characteristic of the Arabic orthography played an important role. Method The A-HAT evolved through two stages: constructing the assessment and establishing content validity, and examining its feasibility and initial psychometric properties. The study included 114 normally achieving students in second (n = 54, Mage = 7.79, SD = 0.31) and fourth grades (n = 60, Mage = 9.86, SD = 0.40), whose mother tongue was Arabic. Students were administered the A-HAT, including copying a paragraph and writing to dictation tasks, in small groups. Results Speed and legibility improved from second to fourth grades, in both the copying and dictation tasks. Girls were found to write more legibly than the boys in the dictation task. Finally, medium to high test–retest and inter-rater reliability were found. Conclusion This study emphasises the importance of considering the unique orthography of a language in the development of a handwriting assessment. In addition, the results indicate that the A-HAT is a promising measure that may assist educators and clinicians in assessing the Arabic handwriting performance of students in lower elementary school.
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[article] Development and validity of the Arabic Handwriting Assessment for elementary school students [texte imprimé] / Abeer Salameh-Matar ; Nasir Basal ; Baraah Nashef-Tali ; Naomi Weintraub . - 2016 . - p. 212-219.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The British Journal of Occupational Therapy > Vol.79 N°4 (April 2016) . - p. 212-219

Mots-clés :	écriture  évaluation  langage  enseignement primaire  fiabilité  validité
Résumé :	Introduction Assessing handwriting performance is important for developing effective intervention programmes. We describe the development of the Arabic Handwriting Assessment for elementary school students (A-HAT) and its initial psychometric properties. In its development, the unique characteristic of the Arabic orthography played an important role. Method The A-HAT evolved through two stages: constructing the assessment and establishing content validity, and examining its feasibility and initial psychometric properties. The study included 114 normally achieving students in second (n = 54, Mage = 7.79, SD = 0.31) and fourth grades (n = 60, Mage = 9.86, SD = 0.40), whose mother tongue was Arabic. Students were administered the A-HAT, including copying a paragraph and writing to dictation tasks, in small groups. Results Speed and legibility improved from second to fourth grades, in both the copying and dictation tasks. Girls were found to write more legibly than the boys in the dictation task. Finally, medium to high test–retest and inter-rater reliability were found. Conclusion This study emphasises the importance of considering the unique orthography of a language in the development of a handwriting assessment. In addition, the results indicate that the A-HAT is a promising measure that may assist educators and clinicians in assessing the Arabic handwriting performance of students in lower elementary school.
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