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Reliability coefficients of .94 for stability and .95 for internal reliability were obtained by the same rater for a Spanish version of the Body Coordination Test for Children (Köperkoordinationstest für Kinder, KTK) given to 90 children. Interrater agreement of .99 when scoring performances simultaneously and .90 over an 8-day interval were obtained with 120 subjects. Sex, grade, group of children, and treatment were significant sources of variation.

Although researchers have used drawings of the human figure to evaluate body-image in adults and children, test measures of the concepts involved have not been precisely constructed, so the purpose of this study was to estimate the body-image concept relations measured on the Goodenough-Harris Draw-a-Person Test and on the Prueba para Diagnóstico de Imagen Corporal--Universidad Nacional for 90 kindergarten, first and second graders. Factor analyses (sex by grade, 2 x 3; and sex by age, 2 x 7) showed that sex was not a significant factor on either measure, but grade and age were. A Pearson correlation for the total scores on both tests was a moderate, significant value of .45. Correlations of the total with subtest scores varied from .30 to .50. Values were strongest for first grade children from 6 to 6 1/2 yr. of age (.59 to .78), at the beginning of the developmental period in which children gradually gain an awareness of the parts of the body, their functions and left-right concepts.

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