title: Visual-motor test performance: race and achievement variables.
abstract: Tested rural Michigan black (N = 60) and white (N = 60) children of variant academic achievement on the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test for visual-motor skill development. The test, which consists of six gestalt designs for the person to copy, includes four measures of such skill development: Degree of copied design rotation and errors of separation of circle-diamond, distortion of circle-diamond and distortion of dots. In general, analyses that statistically controlled for intellectual level indicated that race was not a significant variable in the relationship of achievement level and visual-motor test performance. That is, such analyses resulted only in a significant achievement effect; low achievers, in comparison with high achievers, performed poorly on the copying test. Only with distortion of circle-diamond errors was a race interactive effect noted; i.e., black low achievers had significantly more errors than black high achievers, white low achievers or white high achievers. Results were discussed in relation to environmental determinants and symptomatology correlates.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014796:Visual Perception; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*