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Gifted children and visual‐motor development: A comparison of Bender‐Gestalt and VMI test performance
Author(s) -
Knoff Howard M.,
Sperling Barbara L.
Publication year - 1986
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(198607)23:3<247::aid-pits2310230303>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - psychology , bender gestalt test , gestalt psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , motor skill , projective test , neuroscience , paleontology , psychoanalysis , perception , biology
A sample of 63 gifted elementary‐school students was administered the Bender Visual‐Motor Gestalt Test and the Developmental Test of Visual‐Motor Integration for comparative purposes and to test Koppitz hypothesis that gifted students have advanced visual‐motor development. Group results revealed no significant differences between the two tests, that they did correlate significantly, and that younger students in particular had advanced visual‐motor development when tested using these two tools.