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The Vane Kindergarten Test: Temporal Stability And Ability to Predict Behavioral Criteria

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Powers, Sandra M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977

The Vane Kindergarten Test (VKT) is judged to have limited usefulness in early detection of learning handicaps for two reasons: (a) Its reliability is too low to allow discrimination between individuals, and (b) The ability of the VKT to predict problem behaviors is quite limited. (Author)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Kindergarten Children, Learning Disabilities

Are Learning Disabled Children More Impulsive? A Comparison of Learning Disabled and Normal-Achieving Children on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test.

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Nagle, Richard J.; Thwaite, Ben C. – Psychology in the Schools, 1979

Compared the performance of learning disabled and normal-achieving third- and fourth-grade children on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test to determine group differences along the impulsivity-reflection dimension. Overall results suggest that learning disabled children are not more impulsive but rather use poor strategic behavior in processing…

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education