Psychology: Research and Review
From: Metacognitive interventions in text production and working memory in students with ADHD
NTPT correction criteria | ||
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Indicators by process | Score | |
Planning | Narrative elements** | 1 point per element present in the text: introduction of subject matter, characters, ambiance, problem or purpose, action, denouement and emotions; (range=0–7). |
Temporal sequence error* | 1 point per each alteration in the chronological order of events. | |
Content errors/digressions* | 1 point per one of off-topic statements. | |
Cohesion errors* | 1 point per each incomplete and/or ambiguous reference by inadequate use or absence of connectives. | |
Planning errors | Sum of sequence, content, and cohesion errors. | |
Translation | Number of words* | 1 point for words of the text. |
Number of clauses* | 1 point per clauses (1 point per unit composed by subject and predicate that included a personal form of a verb). | |
Words per clause* | Division of number of words by number of clauses. | |
Number of sentences | 1 point per sentence. | |
Number of compound sentences | 1 point per compound sentence (more than one clause). | |
Syntactic complexity* | Division between compound sentences and number of sentences. | |
Morphosyntactic errors* | 1 point per error (agreement of gender, number, or between subject and verb; in the order of words in sentences; omissions, substitutions or additions of functional words [such as articles, prepositions, adverbs]). | |
Spelling errors* | 1 point per spelling error (there can be more than one error in a word). | |
Correct words | 1 point per word with no spelling errors. | |
Absolute spelling accuracy | Percentage of number of correct words in relation to number of words. | |
Relative spelling accuracy | Percentage of number of words spelled correctly and number of words that are not monosyllables. | |
Presentation errors* | 1 point per error (erasures, illegible words, inadequacy as to capitalization, spacing and separation of words, etc.). | |
Paragraphing (organization of text content into paragraphs) | Considering the text in its entirety, assign: 1 for no division of paragraphs; 2 for inadequate paragraphing; 3, partially adequate paragraphing; and 4 for adequate punctuation (range=1–4). | |
Score | Considering the text in its entirety, assign: 1 for no punctuation; 2 for inadequate punctuation; 3 for partially adequate punctuation; and 4 for adequate punctuation (range=1–4). | |
Revision | Formal revisions* | 1 point per each rewriting of illegible words, correction of punctuation, and correction of spelling. |
Content revisions* | 1 point per each addition, exclusion, shift, and transformation of word, sentence, or clause in attempting to improve the content. | |
Formal revision | Percentage of formal revisions in relation to total formal errors | |
Content revision | Percentage of content revisions in relation to total content errors | |
Revision* | Percentage of formal revisions and content revisions in relation to total revisions. |