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Reliability of a Handedness Performance Test in Right and Left Handed Children: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Longoni A. M.,
Gennaro L.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00912.x
Subject(s) - psychology , laterality , left handed , test (biology) , developmental psychology , intelligence quotient , correlation , neuropsychological test , audiology , cognition , neuropsychology , mathematics , medicine , paleontology , physics , geometry , optics , biology , neuroscience
A 25–item handedness performance test was administered twice, at a one‐month interval, to 85 elementary school children (60 right handers and 25 left handers in two different age groups). The laterally quotient distribution For light handers was more skewed and significantly different in central tendency and shape than (he left handers' distribution, Mean point‐biserial item‐test correlation was 0.85. The test‐retest correlation coefficient for the whole group was 0.79.