Attempts at name-writing and draw-a-person were collected from 112 preschool children of both sexes. High inter-rater agreement of level and characteristics of writing was obtained using the Pre-school Name Writing Scale. Scores on tasks correlated positively with age and with each other. Test-retest reliability for a subsample showed writing to have a moderately good reliability which was higher than drawing. Production on these tests is similarly affected in the coordination and constriction of graphic movement. Writing contains other specific features over the age range in which Lavine (1977) repons improvement in differentiation of writing from non-writing pictorial displays.
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