3.2.5. Second step of assessment in primary school—Reading skills

The MT reading test (Cornoldi et al., 1998) was used to measure reading accuracy and reading speed in primary-school children. It is a standardized test with strong psychometric properties administered by the experimenter to the children individually. Based on the procedure in the manual, the child is asked to read a text aloud as best as he/she could, while the experimenter registered the reading time and errors. The number of errors while reading aloud, such as mispronounced, or omitted, or added syllables produced the “reading accuracy” score. The ratio between the reading time in seconds and the total number of read syllables produced the “reading speed” score (e.g., the higher the score, the slower the children read). According to the norms of this reading test, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the scale is 0.70.