Block Design Subtest

Cincinnati child cohort Neurodevelopmental test battery at 15-17 years Wide Range Achievement Test— Third Edition, Block Design Subtest and WISC-III, vocabulary subtest PbB mean, 78 months Significant inverse association between Learning/IQ Factor and fine-motor factor scores and 78-month PbBs lower SES children more affected Ris et al. (2004)... 

A statistically significant relationship was found between the time since the child had last abused solvent and psychological test performance on four measures - the block design subtest and prorated performance IQ of the WISC, the number of errors on the two-choice reaction time task and the speed of finger tapping with the right index finger. 

Germany German children, three cities, age 6 years (384) PbB mean, 6 years 4.3 rrg/dl (95th percentile, 8.9 rrg/dl) German WISC subtests. Vocabulary, Block Design and Summed Index. Adjusted vocabulary and summed index scores significantly inversely linked with PbB Walkowiak etal. (1998)... 

An abbreviated version of the WISC-R was used to provide a measure of intellectual ability. Four subtests were used two from the Verbal Scale (Similarities and Vocabulary) and two from the Performance Scale (Picture Completion and Block Design). These subtests were selected from the ten that comprise the full test because of a) their high correlations with Full Scale IQ, b) their satisfactory reliability and stability over time, and c) their brevity (Kaufman, 1979). 

Mother s IQ was assessed using two subtests of the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale the vocabulary test and the block design test. These are the two subtests that correlate most highly with the verbal and performance scores respectively of the WAIS. 

Intelligence was assessed by means of two verbal and two performance subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC Wechsler, 1974). The subtests used were Vocabulary and Comprehension, and Block Design and Picture Completion. 

In almost all tests (with exception of the WISC-R), no influence of sociodemographic variables was observed. All four subtests of WISC-R were affected by parents occupation-education status whereas only some subtests (comprehension and block design) were affected by sex. 

The increase in the explained variance due to whole tooth lead level was only limited and reached a 10% significance level only for the number of errors in the simple visual reaction time test, the WISC-R performance test, more specificly for the block design and picture arrangement subtest, as well as for the number of errors in the Toulouse-Pieron attention task. 

Sum of age-standardized scores from subtests vocabulary, comprehension, picture completion and block design of HAWIK (1982) or HAWIK-R (1985). Expected mean score is 40 Not significant (p > 0.05)... 

This is a subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales-Revised (WAIS-R). Participants are required to arrange red and white blocks to copy the visual presentation of a printed design. There are time limits for each of the problems and subjects receive points for each design depending on the time to perfect completion. This is a test of visuoconstructional assembly ability and visuomo-tor coordination. It is sensitive to cortical dysfunction, but primarily parietal lobe dysfunction. 

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