Home
Resource
Drawing comparisons between drawing performance and developmental assessments
PDF
PDF format is widely accepted and good for printing.
Plug-in required
PDF-1(634.52 kb)
Citation & Export
View Usage Statistics
Staff View

Citation & Export
Hide

Simple citation

Rehrig, Gwendolyn Louise. Drawing comparisons between drawing performance and developmental assessments. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30003T3

Export

Click here for information about Citation Management Tools at Rutgers.

Statistics
Hide

Description

TitleDrawing comparisons between drawing performance and developmental assessments
NameRehrig, Gwendolyn Louise (author); Stromswold, Karin (chair); Feldman, Jacob (internal member); Brenneman, Kimberly (internal member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - New Brunswick
Date Created2015
Other Date2015-01 (degree)
SubjectPsychology, Developmental psychology, Motor ability, Drawing
Extent1 online resource (vii, 24 p. : ill.)
DescriptionHuman figure drawing tasks like the Draw-A-Person (DAP) task have long been used to assess intelligence (Goodenough, 1926). To what extent are these tasks valid as measures of cognitive ability? What other skills, if any, do DAP intelligence tests measure? This study investigates the skills tapped by drawing and investigates risk factors associated with poor drawing. Self-portraits of 345 preschool children were scored using the DAP:IQ rubric (Reynolds & Hickman, 2004) and were scored for overall aesthetic quality by artists. Analyses of children’s fine motor, gross motor, social, cognitive, and language skills revealed fine motor and cognitive skills predicted aesthetic scores, but only fine motor skills predicted DAP:IQ scores. Being male and born with low birth weight were risk factors for poor drawing skills. These findings suggest that the DAP:IQ could be used as an easy way to screen for fine motor disturbances in at-risk children. Furthermore, researchers who use human figure drawing tasks to measure intelligence should compare performance on said tasks with measures of fine motor skill in addition to standard measures of intelligence.
NoteM.S.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Gwendolyn Louise Rehrig
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30003T3
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
Version 8.5.5
Rutgers University Libraries - Copyright ©2024