Development of Test of Auditory Comprehension in Kannada (TAC-K)

Abstract

Auditory comprehension is an important listening skill to understand the spoken message and communicate effectively. An independent test. to assess auditory comprehension in Kannada was not available and hence Test of Auditory comprehension in Kannada (TAC-K) was developed. TAC-K consisted of eight sub-tests namely (a) Yes-No questions, (b) Identification based on description - Closed set, (c) Identification based on description - Open set, (d) Following commands, (e) Comprehension of short paragraph, (/) Correcting the incorrect statements, (g) Identifying the category and (h) Problem solving. The test was administered on children in the age range of 4 to 9.11 years. The children were divided into six age groups with 30 children assessed in each age group. The age specific scores were obtained for all the sub-tests of TAC-K. There was no significant difference between the two lists for all the age groups suggesting that the two lists were equivalent. The reliability assessment results revealed reliability co-efficient of greater than 0.95 for all the sub-tests across all age groups which reflect very good test-retest reliability. The result of validity assessment also shows that the TAC-K test has good validity. Thus, TAC-K can be effectively used to determine the level of auditory comprehension of a child for a particular auditory comprehension skill.