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A Longitudinal Study of Laterality Expression and Teacher Evaluation of Elementary School Children

College of Home Economics, University of Delaware, Newark 19711

A three-year longitudinal study conducted to assess the incidence of mixed laterality in elementary school children showed 37 percent of the 82 subjects followed had mixed laterality, with a higher rate for black subjects (45 percent), although this was not found to be statistically significant. There was a shift in laterality expression in 8 percent of the subjects over three years. A Teacher Rating Scale designed to evaluate perceptual motor levels and academic achievement was developed. No statistically significant relationship was found between mixed laterality and the variables of sex, race, age, and grade. Teacher rating showed a lower mean score for black subjects than for white subjects; however, as most of the black subjects were enrolled in one of the three schools participating in the study, other factors may have accounted for the lower teacher rating. (Home Economics Research Journal, March 1978, Vol. 6, No. 3)

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, 242-250 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X7800600306


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