Relationship Between Written Verbal Fluency and School Academic Performance

The tasks of verbal fluency are procedures that are performed regularly in the neuropsychological evaluation, which to be carried out require the recruitment of a series of cognitive processes, among which executive functions and language skills stand out. Was performed an empirical pilot study with experimental quantitative methodology, evaluating with tasks of verbal fluency written to two groups of students, high and low academic performance, belonging to 4th year of primary school. It is concluded that written verbal fluency, whether applied only the semantic task or in conjunction with the phonological, would be useful to differentiate between those students with high or low academic performance belonging to 4th grade. It is expected that the results found, besides being useful for professionals working in the clinical and educational area, serve as an incentive to continue investigating this issue.