TY - JOUR
T1 - What Does the DAP:IQ Measure?
T2 - Drawing Comparisons between Drawing Performance and Developmental Assessments
AU - Rehrig, Gwendolyn
AU - Stromswold, Karin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE BCS-0002010, BCS-0042561, BCS-0124095, and BCS-0446838) and the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (DGE IGERT 0549115). The research was also generously supported by the Busch Biomedical Research Fund and the Bamford-Lahey Children’s Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Human figure drawing tasks such as the Draw-a-Person test have long been used to assess intelligence (F. Goodenough, 1926). The authors investigate the skills tapped by drawing and the risk factors associated with poor drawing. Self-portraits of 345 preschool children were scored by raters trained in using the Draw-a-Person Intellectual Ability test (DAP:IQ) rubric (C. R. Reynolds & J. A. Hickman, 2004). Analyses of children's fine motor, gross motor, social, cognitive, and language skills revealed that only fine motor skill was an independent predictor of DAP:IQ scores. Being a boy and having a low birth weight were associated with lower DAP:IQ scores. These findings suggest that although the DAP:IQ may not be a valid measure of cognitive ability, it may be a useful screening tool for fine motor disturbances in at-risk children, such as boys who were born at low birth weights. Furthermore, researchers who use human figure drawing tasks to measure intelligence should measure fine motor skill in addition to intelligence.
AB - Human figure drawing tasks such as the Draw-a-Person test have long been used to assess intelligence (F. Goodenough, 1926). The authors investigate the skills tapped by drawing and the risk factors associated with poor drawing. Self-portraits of 345 preschool children were scored by raters trained in using the Draw-a-Person Intellectual Ability test (DAP:IQ) rubric (C. R. Reynolds & J. A. Hickman, 2004). Analyses of children's fine motor, gross motor, social, cognitive, and language skills revealed that only fine motor skill was an independent predictor of DAP:IQ scores. Being a boy and having a low birth weight were associated with lower DAP:IQ scores. These findings suggest that although the DAP:IQ may not be a valid measure of cognitive ability, it may be a useful screening tool for fine motor disturbances in at-risk children, such as boys who were born at low birth weights. Furthermore, researchers who use human figure drawing tasks to measure intelligence should measure fine motor skill in addition to intelligence.
KW - DAP:IQ
KW - developmental assessment
KW - fine motor
KW - intelligence
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U2 - 10.1080/00221325.2017.1392281
DO - 10.1080/00221325.2017.1392281
M3 - Article
C2 - 29192871
AN - SCOPUS:85035799877
VL - 179
SP - 9
EP - 18
JO - Journal of Genetic Psychology
JF - Journal of Genetic Psychology
SN - 0022-1325
IS - 1
ER -