background: the main goal of the current research is to evaluate the drawing quality of 4 to 12 years old on the basis of bender-gestalt test. bender-gestalt test is aimed to evaluate visual-motor abilities in children and educational assessments. methods:  the research is conducted in a descriptive framework. the sample included a total number of 707 normal children, aged 4-12 years old, who w...

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries visual and verbal images of the scientist were many and varied. Caricaturists, cartoonists, artists, and writers produced a diverse range of stereotypic figures: diabolical madmen, distinguished professors, harmless eccentrics, learned buffoons, and fashionable dilettantes. Naturalists in the field among flora and fauna were often pictured, as were...

In this study, the Draw-A-Man Test was administered to 183 Iranian children, 96 boys and 87 girls from age of 36 to 119.5 months. The subjects were selected randomly from middle-class families in Tehran. The results show that younger Iranian children scored higher than the older ones. In addition to the age differential on performance, sex differences on drawing a man were tested by means of th...