Abstract.

This article shows the results of a content validation lexis of six texts for the reading comprehension of the Reading and Writing Test in Spanish (LEE for its acronym in Spanish), as a first step to adapt this instrument to our Costa Rican educational context. Since it is an Argentinian-Spanish set of tests, its vocabulary adjusts easily to the one used in Costa Rica. To support this affirmation, this study was done with an instrument approach employing a quantitative methodology that uses triangulation to analyze given data from three different information sources: students, teachers, and experts. The results show that the vocabulary in the texts is understandable to a group of 477 students from second, third, and fourth grade in 15 schools of the 09 Circuit in the Educational Region of Cartago; these data are supported by the criteria of 35 teachers and 5 experts who participated. Very few words were identified within the six texts that could create confusion due to a vocabulary issue (regional terms); thus, synonyms would be recommended to adjust the test for the second part of this study, which corresponds to the verification of the validity and the reliability of the test to be used in Costa Rica.

Keywords: Learning; education; evaluation; reading; writing; comprehension