Premium
VERBAL INTELLIGENCE, VISUOMOTOR ABILITY AND SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT
Author(s) -
BRENNER M. W.,
GILLMAN S.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1968.tb01984.x
Subject(s) - psychology , bender gestalt test , developmental psychology , test (biology) , verbal reasoning , cognition , projective test , paleontology , neuroscience , psychoanalysis , biology
S ummary . The Bender Gestalt Test, scored according to the Koppitz system discriminated clearly between a group of children with visuomotor disorder and educational problems and a matched group of normal subjects. There was a marked difference between scores for emotional adjustment in the two groups. Failure on the Bender Gestalt Test was associated with under‐achievement at school and failure in a selective school examination a year later, even for children with high verbal intelligence. It would appear that selective school examinations are not so heavily biased toward verbal skills as to make success possible for children seriously handicapped by visuomotor dysfunction.