Maley, Claire R. (2007) A cross-cultural examination of the Goodenough-Harris drawing test. In: Presentations from PROMS 2007: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium. From: PROMS 2007: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium, July 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Abstract

It has been said that young children's drawings are more often about "what they know rather than what they see" (Goodenough & Tyler, 1959, p. 316). Indeed, long before children can read and write – and understand the functions of reading and writing – they draw. This paper explores the significance and progress-to-date of the researcher's Doctoral Thesis titled A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test. Discussing the work of Florence Goodenough and Dale Harris, researchers amongst the first to examine children' s drawings, the focus is on the product of their studies – the widely used Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT).

Whilst the validity and reliability of the GHDT has been established primitively by Goodenough (1926), Harris (1963), and others (see Brill, 1938; McCarthy, 1944; McCurdy, 1947; McHugh, 1945a, 1945b; Smith, 1937; Yepsen, 1929), it remains unexamined from a modern test theory perspective. In particular, the test awaits thorough cross-cultural examination to determine possible scale discontinuity and variance; however, at present, there is no sound psychometric base on which thorough examination of the GHDT can be founded. Thus, the aim of this project is to apply the Rasch model for measurement to the GHDT to establish a sound psychometric base on which thorough examination of developmental dis/continuity and cross-cultural measurement in/variance across an Australian/Hong Kong context can be established.

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Date Deposited:	19 Nov 2015 00:09
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