Analysis of Document on Clark’s Drawing Abilities Test from SCCGE
This is a arbitrary Word document that I discovered on the website for the South Carolina Consortium for Gifted Education. It is not a published work, but as useful information on Clark’s Drawing Abilities Test (CDAT). It mainly covers the brief history of CDAT’s development and provides a little more insight into how it works. I’ve copied a few interesting segments out of it:
“Drawing with a pencil or crayon on paper is the most frequently exercised art activity of most children and, therefore, the least intimidating art exercise for a testing situation.”
“The Scoring Criteria Scale is based upon properties of art works that teachers use for instruction and are derived from the writings of Harry Broudy (1972). These are: (1) sensory properties, (2) formal properties, (3) expressive properties, and (4) technical properties.” - I’m particularly interested in these properties used for scoring, but it appears I need to order the test to do so.
Had each instance of the test scored by three independent teachers and the results had “a high degree of agreement.”
UPDATE: Found a better outline of the scoring criteria here.