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Early kindergarten identification of academically not‐ready children by use of human figure drawing developmental score
Author(s) -
Dunleavy Raymond A.,
Hansen James L.,
Szasz Charles W.,
Baade Lyle E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198101)18:1<35::aid-pits2310180108>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , test score , developmental psychology , population , metropolitan area , standard score , identification (biology) , clinical psychology , standardized test , mathematics education , medicine , statistics , environmental health , paleontology , botany , pathology , biology , mathematics
The Koppitz Human Figure Drawing (HFD) Test was examined for use in early identification of academically not‐ready kindergarten children. HFD developmental scores of a group of children who later “passed” the Metroplitan Readiness Test (stanine score ≥4), as required for admission to the first‐grade classroom, were compared with the HFD scores of a group of children who later “failed” the Metropolitan Readiness Test (stanine score ≤3). Evaluation of the test data showed that the optimum HFD score cut‐off point for prediction of nonreadiness was ≤3; 42% of the nonready and 90% of the ready children, as defined by the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MTR) score criterion, were correctly identified. An overall hit rate of 75% was obtained on the experimental population. The work indicates that HFD developmental scores are useful for early identification of the academically not‐ready kindergarten child.