Validation of the Teacher's Assessment of Students' Aptitudes Form—Tasaf

摘要: For a sample of 100 girls and 120 boys lower middle-class backgrounds from the standpoint parental occupation, who were enrolled in eighth grade classes Brazilian public school Rio de Janeiro, validity coefficient ratings by teachers standings their students on each 11 aptitude factors Teacher's Assessment Students' Aptitudes Form (TASAF) was determined relative to criterion scores (unknown teachers) corresponding standardized test differential aptitudes, known as Battery Tests Differential (BTAD). Twenty-three 24 possible G indices agreement statistically significant beyond .05 level. It concluded that for most part able assess students' aptitudes through use TASAF—a procedure saving considerable time cost relation requirements administration tests.