The applicability of children's drawings in predicting academic achievement and differentiating between clinical and nonclinical groups /
Drawing measures are used frequently for psychoeducational assessment purposes in schools, clinics, and other assessment settings (Dickson, Bobo, Guerrero, & Livingston, 2001; Kamphaus, Petoskey, & Rowe, 2000). Unfortunately, even the most touted drawing measures reveal little information to...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Drawing measures are used frequently for psychoeducational assessment purposes in schools, clinics, and other assessment settings (Dickson, Bobo, Guerrero, & Livingston, 2001; Kamphaus, Petoskey, & Rowe, 2000). Unfortunately, even the most touted drawing measures reveal little information to the examiner other than an estimate of general ability level or an indicator of emotional or behavioral difficulties. If drawings are able to predict achievement or diagnostic classification more accurately, the time spent in giving drawing measures certainly would be validated. Therefore, correlational and multiple regression analyses were performed, with no significant differences found in performance on drawing measures between clinical and nonclinical groups. The combination of the Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration and the Draw-A-Person Test most greatly predicted performance on the mathematics cluster of the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement - Revised. The Broad Reading, Broad Written Language, and Early Skills clusters were moderately predicted by the two independent measures. Achievement as measured by the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test was minimally predicted by performance on the Draw-A-Person Test and the Bender Gestalt Test. Once intellectual ability was added in as another predictor, very little of the variance accounted for in the performance on the individual achievement clusters was significantly predicted by the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration and Draw-A-Person Test. Likewise, the variance in performance on the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test clusters was accounted for mostly by intellectual ability, with very little variance accounted for by the Bender Gestalt Test or the Draw-A-Person Test. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: School Psychology". |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 145 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-142). |