Fernandez Alberto Luis, Arriondo Gabriel Jauregui
Universidad Católica de Córdoba - Córdoba, Argentina.
Dement Neuropsychol. 2021 Jul-Sep;15(3):361-365. doi: 10.1590/1980-57642021dn15-030008.
Education exerts a powerful influence on the performance on neuropsychological tests. Recently, the number of years that a person attends school has been the preferred method to operationalize educational level (EL). However, reading fluency (RF) has emerged as an alternative method that can define the quality of education.
To compare the influence of the number of years of education with RF on the cognitive performance in a control sample.
Fifty-six control participants with varying ages (17-87 years) and levels of education (3-19 years of formal schooling) were administered a neuropsychological scale along with an RF task. This scale measured attention, memory, language, executive functions, and constructional praxis. The RF task consisted of a short text. The score was the number of words read correctly per minute. Pearson's was used to compute correlations.
Results showed that RF had a higher correlation (0.53) than the years of schooling (0.38) with the scores of the neuropsychological scale.
Reading fluency is a short, practical task that is easy to use in different languages and is a promising tool for EL assessment. It is also an adequate alternative to the reading of irregular words as a qualitative measure of EL.
教育对神经心理学测试的表现有强大影响。最近，一个人上学的年数已成为衡量教育水平（EL）的首选方法。然而，阅读流畅性（RF）已成为一种可定义教育质量的替代方法。
比较受教育年限与阅读流畅性对对照样本认知表现的影响。
对56名年龄各异（17 - 87岁）、教育水平不同（正规学校教育3 - 19年）的对照参与者进行神经心理学量表测试以及阅读流畅性任务。该量表测量注意力、记忆力、语言能力、执行功能和构建实践能力。阅读流畅性任务包括一篇短文。分数为每分钟正确读出的单词数。使用皮尔逊相关系数计算相关性。
结果显示，阅读流畅性与神经心理学量表分数的相关性（0.53）高于受教育年限（0.38）。
阅读流畅性是一项简短、实用的任务，易于用不同语言进行，是评估教育水平的一个有前景的工具。它也是作为教育水平定性测量的不规则单词阅读的合适替代方法。
