The results of the five DTVP-3 subtests combine to form three composites: Motor-reduced Visual Perception, Visual-Motor Integration, and General Visual Perception (combination of motor-reduced and motor-enhanced subtests). Subtests are assigned to a particular composite on the basis of the amount of motor ability required by their formats.

Benefits

Gives a highly reliable measure, offering extended norms to age 12:11.
Uses new normative data collected in 2010 and 2011.
Composite scores have no floor or ceiling effects.
Provides numerous eligibility and validity studies, including studies of the test’s sensitivity, specificity, and ROC/AUC.
Provides expanded study of item bias.
Overall look of the test is updated.

Features

The DTVP-3 comprises five subtests:

Eye-Hand Coordination: Children are required to draw precise straight or curved lines in accordance with visual boundaries.
Copying: Children are shown a simple figure and asked to draw it on a piece of paper. The figure serves as a model for the drawing. Subsequent figures are increasingly complex.
Figure-Ground: Children are shown stimulus figures and asked to find as many of the figures as they can on a page where the figures are hidden in a complex, confusing background.
Visual Closure: Children are shown a stimulus figure and asked to select the exact figure from a series of figures that have been incompletely drawn. In order to complete the match, children have to mentally supply the missing parts of the figures in the series.
Form Constancy: Children are shown a stimulus figure and asked to find it in a series of figures. The targeted figure will have a different size, position, and/or shade, and it may be hidden in a distracting background.