Design and validation of a checklist to help primary school teachers assess the risk of dyscalculia in their students

Dyscalculia is a learning disorder that is not usually easy to identify in the family or school environment, resulting in a late or non-existent diagnosis. Aware of the need to establish diagnoses of dyscalculia as as it manifests itself at an early age, this study provides a tool that helps in the early detection of this disorder. The process that gave rise to the checklist included an exhaustive literature search procedure prior collection, selection and design of items together with a proposal for grouping them into dimensions. initial checklist proposal was then subjected to a content validation process through the judgement of experts selected on the basis of criteria established a priori. The result is a checklist composed of 69 items grouped into 5 dimensions and 15 sub-dimensions, which aims to help and contribute to facilitating the detection primary school teachers of the risk of dyscalculia in their classrooms.