Written by S. Thompson | Posted in Education |

It is quite common for most schools to give standardized IQ tests to the kids that are trying to get into their schools and also who are finishing the school year. The IQ tests are given in order to see the level of intelligence of the children. The IQ tests are usually heavy in spatial, memory skills, problem solving skills and verbal skills. A big problem arises when you have kids from foreign countries who cannot take the verbal part of the tests. It is a problem even with kids that live here yet speak foreign languages at home.

It is not only a problem determining the intelligence of foreign students, it is also difficult to see how bright lots of withdrawn and shy children are as well. That is why a drawing test is added to the IQ tests. It is not quite like one of the paint projects for kids that they do in kindergarten or as part of an art lesson on Kandinsky for children but, the children are told to draw a person and they are graded based on the amount of details they put into their picture.

It seems like great intelligence can be seen from children’s drawings. Children draw based on how aware they are of their surroundings and how much knowledge they have of what is going on around them. Their drawings portray their relationship to their surroundings and gives a clearer idea to the testers of the children who don’t do well verbally. The test itself is called “Draw a Man” and some of the tests include a tree and a house as well, the tree, house, person test. It is amazing at the amount of information can get from simple drawings that children do. They reflect their whole inner world that they cannot verbalize.

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