The Developmental Test of Visual Perception and the Metropolitan Readiness Test were administered to 75 kindergarten children. The data confirmed the hypothesis of Psychomotor, Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, and Evaluation factors. A tentative Figural Transformations factor as well as a chronological age factor were identified. The results were interpretated as supporting the structure-of-intellect model as an adequate description of the factor structure of the two tests.
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