Abstract
The ability of the Visual-Motor Integration Test (VMI) to predict academic achievement was assessed by using three samples of pre-kindergarten pupils from three successive years in a large midwest school district. At the beginning of the kindergarten year, the Screening Test of Academic Readiness (STAR) was administered to all three samples. Obtained VMI-STAR correlations ranged from .102 to .595. At the beginning of the first grade, the Stanford Early School Achievement Test (SESAT), Primary Battery II, was administered to two samples of pupils. The VMI-SESAT correlations ranged from .271 to .498. At the beginning of the second grade, the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), Primary Battery I, was administered to one sample of pupils. The VMI-SAT correlations ranged from .251 to .402. All of the 61 correlations were statistically significant. The VMI appeared to be most predictive of STAR Total and Numbers scores. SESAT Mathematics and Word Reading scores, and SAT Total Mathematics scores. Test-retest realiability, obtained on one sample over a time period of seven months, was .630.
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