The validity of two clinical tests of visual‐motor perception
Wallbrown, Jane D. Wallbrown, Fred H. Engin, Ann W.
Wallbrown, Jane D.
Wallbrown, Fred H.
Engin, Ann W.
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1977-04
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Wallbrown, J.D., Wallbrown, F.H. and Engin, A.W. (1977), The validity of two clinical tests of visual-motor perception†. J. Clin. Psychol., 33: 491-495. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(197704)33:2<491
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The study investigated the relative efficiency of the Bender and MPD as assessors of achievement‐related errors in visual‐motor perception. Clinical experience with these two tests suggests that beyond first grade the MPD is more sensitive than the Bender for purposes of measuring deficits in visualmotor perception that interfere with effective classroom learning. The sample was composed of 153 third‐grade children from two upper‐middle‐class elementary schools in a surburban school system in central Ohio. For three of the four achievement criteria, the results were clearly congruent with the hypothesis stated above. That is, SpCD errors from the MPD not only showed significantly higher negative rs with the criteria (reading vocabulary, reading comprehension, and mathematics computation) than Koppitz errors from the Bender, but also accounted for a much higher proportion of the variance in these criteria. Thus, the findings suggest that psychologists engaged in the assessment of older children seriously should consider adding the MPD to their assessment battery. Copyright © 1977 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
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John Wiley & Sons
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Journal of Clinical Psychology
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00219762