Objective:

This study aimed to describe the results of a standardization study of some classical neuropsychological tasks for attention assessment: Trail Making Test A, B, Paced auditory serial addition test (PASAT).

Methodology:

The sample consisted of 208 healthy college students from Manizales, with no associated neurological or psychiatric pathology. The instruments used were the Rey verbal auditory learning test, the Rey complex test, the serial auditory test Pattern and Benton visual retention test.

Analysis Plan:

the validity of appearance was assessed through expert judgment; the content was evaluated by factorial analysis; the validity of concurrent criterion, through the Pearson´s correlation coefficient and the internal consistency by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Consistency related to the time of instrument administration by different evaluators, was analyzed according to the number of hits, the difference of means and the correlation coefficient. The data consistency was analyzed by means of the Shapiro Wilk test. The male and female were collated by the U of Mann-Whitney or Student’s t, and finally the scores obtained by for each one of the tests were included in the research.

Results:

It was evidenced adequate content validity for the attentional tasks included in the study, as well as suitable criterion validity and reliability for the PASAT test, and low criterion validity and moderate levels of pretest, posttest reliability in the case of TMT (A) and TMT (B) tasks provided by the university students sample considered in the study.

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