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Comparison of the minnesota Percepto‐Diagnostic test and Bender‐Gestalt: Relationship with achievement criteria
Author(s) -
Fuller Gerald B.,
Wallbrown Fred H.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198311)39:6<985::aid-jclp2270390629>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - psychology , gestalt psychology , bender gestalt test , reading (process) , developmental psychology , audiology , clinical psychology , perception , psychoanalysis , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , projective test , neuroscience
Administered the Bender‐Gestalt (BG) and Minnesota Percepto‐Diagnostic Test (MPD) to 69 first‐grade children prior to administration of the California Achievement Test (CAT). Order of administration for the BG and MPD was counterbalanced to control for practice effects. Correlations ( rs ) were computed between the 9 CAT subtests and scores from the BG and MPD. The DD score from the MPD correlated significantly with all 9 CAT subtests. The SpCD score from the MPD correlated significantly with 6 of the 9 CAT subtests. The BG Koppitz score correlated significantly with 6 of the 9 CAT subtests. Both the DD and SpCD scores showed a significantly higher negative r with Reading Vocabulary, Total Reading, and Arithmetic Computation than the BG. Furthermore, both types of MPD scores showed a much higher average r with the 9 CAT subtests than was evident for the BG. These findings suggest that DD and SpCD scores from the MPD provide a more sensitive measure of deficits in visual‐motor perception than the Koppitz score from the BG.