The new Harris-Goodenough Draw-A-Man test was administered to 36 boys and 36 girls in Grades 1 through 6 in order to estimate inter- and intra-rater reliabilities of the Harris scoring system. The Pearsonian coefficients were .88 and .93, respectively. Comparisons with the literature suggested that the test scores produced by the revised scoring procedure did not have greater reliability than those produced by the Goodenough method.
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