The Predictive Validity of the Test of Auditory Perception

Abstract

Eighty-four second grade children were administered the Lorge-Thorndike Test of Cognitive Abilities (LTTCA), the Test of Auditory Perception (TAP) and, five months later, the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT). Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients and an analysis using stepwise regression indicated that performance on the TAP subtests was significantly correlated with most MAT subtest scores, especially the phonically-oriented MAT Word Analysis subtest. With the common TAP-LTTCA variance held constant, all correlation coefficients which had previously been statistically significant became non-significant except those between the TAP subtests and the MAT Word Analysis subtest. It was concluded that performance in only those aspects of an academic program most directly related to auditory perception can be predicted using the TAP.