KOPPITZ-2

Features and benefits

• True to original conceptualization but updated to meet current psychometric standards.
• Requires the examinee to draw increasingly complex figures from a model (the Bender designs, derived from theories of Gestalt psychology) on a plain sheet of white paper and to organize the task independently, effectively assessing the ability to relate visual stimuli accurately to motor responses.
• Uses a less structured task than other tests of visual-motor integration, thereby providing a more ecologically sound approach to this type of assessment.
• Extended age range allows for the evaluation of special education students through age 21 years and the evaluation of the visual-motor integration deficits of the growing population of seniors.
• For older children and adults, both 2- and 3-dimensional drawings are now required that reveal subtle deficits in visual–motor integration processes.

Test structure

• Provides separate scoring systems for young children (ages 5-7 years) as well as older children and adults (ages 8-85 years and older).
• Completely nonverbal and useful with individuals from widely varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• A special chapter of the Examiner’s Manual is devoted to the Koppitz Emotional Indicators (EIs) and their proper use; a specialized scoring form is also provided.

Technical information

• Normative sample of 3,600 persons is matched to U.S. Census statistics on socioeconomic factors, ethnicity, geographic region, community size, and other critical variables to ensure representativeness of the total population.
• Reliability coefficients are reported for multiple subgroups, including individuals with various disorders.
• Internal consistency (alpha) reliabilities for all but one age are greater than .80; the average of reliabilities across ages is .88. The test correlates highly with the WISC®-III Performance Scale and Perceptual Organization Index.
• Detailed scoring guides and a clear scoring template ensure high levels of interscorer reliability.