This review undertakes a critical evaluation of the literature through 1977 on the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GH). Areas reviewed are administration and standardization of the Man and Woman scales, test ceiling, sex differences, the Quality scale, reliability, criterion validity, validity with measures of academic achievement, cultural variables, and use with the learning disabled and the mentally retarded. It was found that although the GH is a reliable measure for children between 5 and 12 years old, it is not a valid predictor of criterion measures of intelligence or academic achievement. Socioeconomic status was found to exert a more powerful effect on GH performance than race, geographic location, or size of place of residence. It is recommended that future research focus on the use of the test as gross screening device for those in the lower ranges of intelligence.

A discriminant /unction created from two indexes of intellectual deterioration was cross-validated on patients with Alzheimer's disease and with noripsychotic, nonimpaired subjects. The samples were comparable in age, education, race, sex, and handedness. The Satz-Mogel short form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale was the test of intelligence. Hit rates equalled 94% for the Alzheimer's disease patients and 56% for the nonimpaired subjects (0 2 = .59). Most falsepositive errors consisted of nonimpaired subjects with deterioration index ratings indicating no deterioration being misclassified as impaired. Such errors should be minimized when the function is used with additional data sources.

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