Comparative analysis reveals no relationship between visual motor performance and form recognition in schoolchildren, suggesting assessment limitations.
The Perceptual Forms Test for visual motor perception is currently used by some optometrists to predict the general achievement of school children. A study was made on 50 third and fourth grade students comparing their ability to copy specific geometric forms with their ability to recognize parts of these forms when varying the spatial orientation on paper. Although other studies showed that there was some relation to these functions in kindergarten, this study showed that there was no relation between the ability of third and fourth grade children to reproduce forms and their ability to discriminate and recognize forms.
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