Reliability of Perceptual-Motor Laterality Tasks

Abstract

Test-retest and item-analysis reliability studies were performed on a battery of perceptual-motor laterality tasks. It was found that 45 of 54 tasks were reliable and that the entire battery had a test-retest correlation of .84. It was suggested that intermodal tasks may be more appropriate than unimodal tasks for measuring perceptual-motor skills. Suggestions were made for future research, emphasizing the need for more intermodal tasks, as well as the need for further reliability studies with more diverse sample groups.