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Metacomprehension and intelligence: a correlate study with elementary students

This study aimed to get validity evidences of Metacomprehension Scale (META-FII) by WISC-III correlation test. The participants were 61 students, 59,0% were female that were at public elementary school in São Paulo state. The age variation was from 10 through 13 years old (M = 11,79; SD = 1,13). The META-FII scale was collectively administered in the first session and the WISC-III in two post sessions, individually. The results showed significant difference to genre only at verbal comprehension QI. Verbal, verbal comprehension and total QI were positive correlated with META-FII scale which give to the scale validity evidences.

metacognition; reading; psychometric assessment


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