Psychometric Analysis of Mathematic Assessment Tests Used with French-speaker Children

According to DMS-5, the evaluation of a child with mathematical difficulties has an important step of quantitative assessment to highlight that the schooled skills are below the level for chronological age. Until now, no study was interested to investigate the psychometric characteristics of French clinical tests to assess the mathematical abilities of French-speaker children. However, professionals of mathematical assessment must choose a tool for this. The present study has two goals: 1) to update the recension of French clinical tools for the assessment of mathematical abilities realized by Lafay, St-Pierre, & Macoir (2014); 2) to analyze these tools with regards to their psychometric qualities. The results showed that, although many test tools are available, few of them answers however the psychometric standards. By the way, our study thus represents help for clinicians to adopt a reflexive practice during the choice of the diagnostic tests in an approach of Evidence-Based Practice.