Dita.te —A Dictation Assessment Instrument with Automatic Analysis.
Background/Objectives: To date, there are no validated tools that assess children's performance in connected text dictation tasks in European Portuguese using automated analysis. International studies were identified, but these primarily involved word dictation tasks and did not use automatic scorin...
| Publicado en: | Children Vol. 12; no. 6; pp. 774 - 788 |
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MDPI
Jun2025
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