Oral comprehension computer-based test in public and private elementary-school

Abstract

To evaluate and detect as early as possible the difficulties in the oral language allows a proper and adequate intervention aiming a successful literacy. In this sense, to evaluate the oral comprehension in elementary-school students it was used the Bateria Informatizada da Linguagem Oral (BILOv3) that has tests varying from morphosyntactic comprehension, logical sequence to understand and complete stories using the computer. There were 353 students from two Brazilian elementary-schools aging between 6 and 10 years old. There were several significant differences between the schools, with the private institution ranking better than the public one. There were also effects of schooling and age over the performance only in the public school. Having considered the differences obtained, it is important to adequate the methods of literacy for the different educational realities.