Adaptation and Validation of the German Reading Comprehension Test ELFE II for Spanish

Ariel Cuadro; César Daniel Costa-Ball; Alexa von Hagen; Gonzalo Silvera; Ricardo Rosas; José Pablo Escobar; Wolfgang Lenhard

doi:10.1027/2698-1866/a000060

Adaptation and Validation of the German Reading Comprehension Test ELFE II for Spanish

Ariel Cuadro, César Daniel Costa-Ball, Alexa von Hagen, Gonzalo Silvera, Ricardo Rosas, José Pablo Escobar, Wolfgang Lenhard

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The objective of this study is to present the process of adaptation and validation of the German reading comprehension test ELFE II (Lenhard et al., 2017) for Spanish. Both languages exhibit comparable orthographic depth but differ in their word material due to their different origins (Romanic vs. Germanic language roots). We reconstructed the test based on the original structure and construction principles and aligned syllable structure, frequency, and word length. Convergent validity, item analysis, dimensionality, and reliability studies provide evidence to support a unidimensional structure for each scale subtest, which in turn is in accordance with theoretical frameworks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	339-349
Number of pages	11
Journal	Psychological Test Adaptation and Development
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1027/2698-1866/a000060 https://doi.org/10.1027/2698-1866/a000060
State	Published - Dec 2023

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