Department of Occupational Therapy, Long Island University-Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Oct;113(2):377-85. doi: 10.2466/03.10.24.27.PMS.113.5.377-385.
Pediatric clinicians working with school-age children use the Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities (WRAVMA) as a method for evaluating visual perception and motor skills in children despite limited information on concurrent validity. Whether it may be substituted for the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI) and has suitable estimates of concurrent validity were examined with a convenience sample of 91 typically developing children ages 4 to 11 years. No systematic concurrent validity between the WRAVMA and the VMI emerged. Only two subtests of the WRAVMA (Matching with Visual Perception, and Pegboard with Motor Coordination) gave scores statistically significantly correlated with those on the VMI, and these correlations were weak, accounting for very small amounts of the shared variance. As such, they have low clinical relevance. These findings do not provide evidence of concurrent validity to support the use of WRAVMA as an alternative method for the VMI for assessing children's visual perception and motor skills.
儿科临床医生在评估儿童的视觉感知和运动技能时，会使用广泛的视觉运动能力评估（WRAVMA），尽管其同时效度的信息有限。本研究采用方便样本对 91 名年龄在 4 至 11 岁的正常发育儿童进行了研究，以探讨 WRAVMA 是否可以替代视觉运动整合测验（Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration，VMI），以及其是否具有适当的同时效度估计值。WRAVMA 与 VMI 之间没有系统的同时效度。WRAVMA 只有两个子测试（视觉感知匹配和运动协调钉板）与 VMI 的分数呈统计学显著相关，并且这些相关性较弱，只占共享方差的很小一部分。因此，它们的临床相关性较低。这些发现没有提供同时效度的证据，无法支持使用 WRAVMA 替代 VMI 作为评估儿童视觉感知和运动技能的方法。
