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The Beery vmi
Aaron Keithley
What is it?
Background
The Beery VMI is an assessment designed to test a child's Visual Motor Integration (Hand Eye Coordination), Fine motor skills, and skill in identifying shapes and patterns.
WHo created it
Creation
The Beery VMI was created by Keith E. Beery, Natasha A. Beery, and Norman A. Buktencia and published by Pearson in 1967.
It has been revised several times with the most recent being in 2010 with the Sixth edition.
Details
The three sections of this test assess students ages 2 to 18 on primarily their visual-motor integration, visual perception, and their motor coordination, but can also be used to test adults of all ages.
The test uses a variety of drawing exercises to help test specific skills related to the student's overall motor capabilities.
These sections include line drawing, replicating given images, selecting the correct visual responses for given questions.
Requirements
The Beery VMI takes a total of about 15 to 25 minutes with the longest section being the short/full format main tests which take about 10-15 minutes.
To administer the test you must have a Master's Degree in Psychology or be otherwise certified by educational organizations.
The test uses the three separate answer forms and a pencil without an eraser.
Scoring & results
scoring
The test is scored by hand and scores are assigned based on the accuracy of the student's drawings, lines, and if they properly identify the given objects.
No Basal and Ceiling rules apply because each question tests a different skill and the amount of questions is low, so each question is individually graded.
The test only gives a standard score, but also has conversions to obtain age equivalency scores.
format
Format
The test is given in three sections.
The main test has students complete a series of tasks that have them recreating shapes they have been given on the testing sheet with their pencil. The students record their drawings on the answer sheet.
The test also has two supplementary sections that test different skills.
Visual Perception
Visual
The first supplementary section is Visual Perception. This section asks the student to identify their different body parts outlined in the test, and also on a given drawing.
They are then asked questions where they are given an image and must choose the image below that matches the given image.
Motor Coordination
MOTOR
In the Motor Coordination section the students have to draw objects using the diagrams given to them. The Diagrams have black dots and gray dots. The student puts their pencil on the black dot and must draw lines to the gray dots.
The students are not allowed to tilt the booklet or erase any of the lines that they have drawn.