(MVPT-4) Motor-Free Visual Perception Test
Fourth Edition
Ronald P. Colarusso, EdD / Donald D. Hammill, EdD
Ages: 4 through 80+ years
Administration: Individual
Testing Time: 20 - 25 minutes
The MVPT-4 Complete Kit includes:
• Manual
• Test Plates (1 set)
• Recording Forms (25)
With its easy, motor-free response format, the MVPT-4 assesses visual perception and is especially helpful with those who may have learning, physical, or cognitive disabilities. This test can be used for screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, or research by educators, psychologists, occupational therapists, optometrists, and others who need a quick, accurate measure of visual–perceptual skills.
Administration:
The test items should be administered in the order they appear in the Examiner’s Manual. The same test format is used for all ages. The MVPT-4 employs simple black and white line drawings for both the stimulus items and answer choices. The horizontal, multiple-choice item format of earlier versions has been retained. Test plates are contained in one easy-to-use book with an easel back. Administration cues are provided on the record form to simplify testing.
Five Categories of Visual Perception Measured:
• Visual Discrimination: involves the ability to discriminate dominant features or different objects (i.e., the ability to discriminate position, shapes, forms, colors, and letter like forms).
• Visual Memory: the ability to recognize one stimulus item after a very brief interval.
• Visual Closure: a form of visual discrimination that involves the ability to perceive a whole figure when only fragments are presented.
• Figure Ground: a form of visual discrimination that involves the ability to distinguish an object from background (or surrounding) objects
• Spatial Relationship: involved with this skills are the abilities to orient one’s body in space and to perceive the positions of objects in relations to one’s self to other objects (i.e., figure reversals or figure rotations).
Scoring and Technical Information:
The total score is calculated by subtracting the number of errors made from the number of the last item administered. The MVPT-4 yields a single raw score that can be computed into standard score, percentile rank and age equivalency. Norms were based upon a representative sample of 1856 individuals residing across 118 cities in 34 states in the United States, and 7 cities in Canada that provided 60 adult samples.
