The aim of this study was to relate the understanding of oral language to the ability to reason, in order to seek correlational validity evidence of the Computerized Oral Language Battery (Bateria Informatizada de Linguagem Oral) by association with the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale. The participants were 82 schoolchildren between 5 and 9 years of age (M=7.05, SD=1.25). They attended pre-school (31.7%),1st (32.9%) and 2nd (35.4%) grades of elementary public school in São Paulo and 47.6% of whom were girls. The Bateria Informatizada de Linguagem Oral was applied collectively in the school informatics laboratory and the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale, individually. Analysis of Variance for the series, indicated significant statistics differences for the scores of Morphosyntactic prove, Logical sequence prove, Logical Organization prove and for the total score of Bateria Informatizada de Linguagem Oral. Regression analysis revealed that general reason represents 29% of the skills needed to perform well in Bateria Informatizada de Linguagem Oral. There was low, but very significant correlation between total scores of Bateria Informatizada de Linguagem Oral and Columbia Mental Maturity Scale. These results indicated validity evidences to Bateria Informatizada de Linguagem Oral.
Computer-based test; Comprehension; Elementary school
