title: Children's embedded figures test: an examination of item difficulty in grades K-4.
abstract: Indices of item difficulty for both the Tent and the House series of the Children's Embedded Figures Test are reported from a sample of 240 children in grades K-4. Results indicate that the failure rule should be re-considered and the test shortened.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests