Q1 VATA
Batteries for the Assessment of Transversal Learning Abilities
R. De Beni with C. Zamperlin, G. Friso, A. Molin, S. Poli and C. Vocetti (Gruppo MT)
University of Padua
General overview
The Q1 VATA batteries represent the new edition of a series of tests (Q1) which have met with such success with teachers over recent years. This is a series of assessment tools that can be easily administered and profitably utilised by the teachers and schools that need to adapt the contents and methods of the educational intervention to the needs of the individual student, for a personalised teaching approach that can enhance maximum development.
Structure
Since the correct assessment of the student at the outset is of the maximum importance, the Q1 VATA programme comprises a series of objective tools designed to explore basis and transversal skills. The tests, graduated by scholastic level, cover areas that are crucial for the design of the teaching and educational intervention, and investigate the cognitive, metacognitive and affective-relational aspects of the individual student.
Two batteries are available:
- Q1 VATA 8-11 years for entry assessment starting from the third year of primary school
- Q1 VATA 11-14 years for entry assessment starting from the first year of middle school.
Each battery comprises a series of tests (7 for the 8-11 year bracket, 10 for the 11-14 year bracket) plus an observation grid, all complete with specific reference manual, photocopiable forms for administration and answer grids.
The tests
- Reading comprehension of a passage.
- Metacomprehension (only for the 11-14 year bracket): assesses the most appropriate strategies for the performance of reading and text sensitivity tasks (capacity to identify anomalies, to express a judgement on the texts as a whole or to identify the specific literary genres they belong to).
- Listening comprehension of passages on a pre-recorded CD.
- Writing: assesses layout, decipherability, adherence to requirements, abundance and consistency of contents, organisation of text, fluidity and mastery of vocabulary, morphosyntax, orthography and punctuation.
- Study skills: evaluates cognitive performance (comprehension and memorisation of contents of a text) and metacognitive skills (awareness of study strategies and executive control).
- Reasoning: comprises the classification of words and figures, sequences of figures, analogies with words and images, logical problems, sequences of numbers and words, deductions.
- Numerical skills: assesses the capacity to resolve more or less complex numerical exercises and speed in doing sums.
- Praxical skills: assesses capacity for spatial orientation, dexterity, precision and rapidity.
- Motor skills: consists of performing tasks of manual dexterity, proprioceptive orientation and static-dynamic equilibrium.
- Rhythm (only for the 11-14 year bracket): assesses musical perception.
- Observation grid: this is an inventory to assess the metacognitive, motivational and socio-affective attitudes of the student, designed to serve as a guide for the teacher.
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