ARHQ-vux : En kvantitativ förstudie om utformandet av ett screeningverktyg

• Main Author: Ögren, Kathrine
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier 2018
• Subjects: adult reading history questionnaire; dyslexi; läs- och skrivsvårigheter; vuxna; ärftlighet; screening; Pedagogical Work; Pedagogiskt arbete
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-158637

This quantitative study examines whether the English screening tool ”Adult Reading History Questionnaire” works in a Swedish context or not. The essay is based on a formation of a new screening tool called ARHQ-vux. The intention was to find out whether a person might be dyslectic or not. ARHQ-vux is based on components such as heredity factors and how the informants experienced school as a child. The screening tool was tested in a sample of 71 adult students at five different adult educational institutions in the north of Sweden. To measure the validity a correlation was made between ARHQ-vux and the already standardized Swedish screening tool DUVAN. This study shows that the tool ARHQ-vux successfully can be used as a reliable screening tool to identify adults who might be at risk of dyslexia.