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    Seguin Form Board Test (SFB Seguin 1907) What Does SFB Measure?

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    The Seguin Form Board Test (SFB) is a performance test that measures speed and accuracy in visuospatial perception, organization, discrimination, psychomotor skills, and cognitive speed in children ages 4-20 and adults with intellectual disabilities. It takes little time to administer, is engaging for children, and easy to score. SFB correlates moderately with other intelligence tests and is considered culturally fair. While it provides corroborating evidence of intellectual ability, SFB does not measure abstract thinking, reasoning, or social/adaptive skills. Administration involves timing how quickly subjects can rearrange blocks in their original positions in up to three trials. Scores are converted to a mental age and IQ.

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    The Seguin Form Board Test (SFB) is a performance test that measures speed and accuracy in visuospatial perception, organization, discrimination, psychomotor skills, and cognitive speed in children ages 4-20 and adults with intellectual disabilities. It takes little time to administer, is engaging for children, and easy to score. SFB correlates moderately with other intelligence tests and is considered culturally fair. While it provides corroborating evidence of intellectual ability, SFB does not measure abstract thinking, reasoning, or social/adaptive skills. Administration involves timing how quickly subjects can rearrange blocks in their original positions in up to three trials. Scores are converted to a mental age and IQ.

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    The Seguin Form Board Test (SFB) is a performance test that measures speed and accuracy in visuospatial perception, organization, discrimination, psychomotor skills, and cognitive speed in children ages 4-20 and adults with intellectual disabilities. It takes little time to administer, is engaging for children, and easy to score. SFB correlates moderately with other intelligence tests and is considered culturally fair. While it provides corroborating evidence of intellectual ability, SFB does not measure abstract thinking, reasoning, or social/adaptive skills. Administration involves timing how quickly subjects can rearrange blocks in their original positions in up to three trials. Scores are converted to a mental age and IQ.

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    Seguin Form Board Test (SFB Seguin 1907) What Does SFB Measure?

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    Seguin Form Board Test (SFB; Seguin 1907)

    Introduction

    What does SFB measure?


    Seguin Form Board test is the commonly used performance test. It is the speed test that
    measures accuracy. It measures the ‘g’ factor of intelligence. It assesses visuospatial
    perception, organisation and discrimination, psychomotor dexterity, coordination and
    development, motor and cognitive speed (Cattel, 1953;David and Virginia, 1972; Venkatesan,
    2014) for children between the age of 4 years to 20 years. It is also used as a quick measure
    of general intelligence in children between the age of 3 years to 11 years and for mentally
    retarted adults.

    Reasons for using SFB


    It takes very less time, elicits good interest and motivation from children to participate, ease
    of scoring and it can be administered to all types of children including those who have speech
    impairment, where there are language incompatibility, issues across socio-economic and
    educational background. SFB is considered to be one of the few ‘culture-fair tests’ currently.

    Is SFB used for diagnosing intellectual disability?


    SFB is taken as one of the corroborative findings for assessing intelligence. One of the
    limitations is that it does not measure the aspects of intellect which are abstract thinking,
    reasoning, social and adaptive functions etc.

    Correlation
    To measure the correlation of SFB with other tests, a study (Goel and Bhargava, 1990; Goel
    and Sen, 1984) conducted to assess the suitability and applicability of SFB to all the
    intellectually disabled children (Goel and Sen, 1984). The following tests were administered,
    Draw-a-Man Test (DAP;Pathak, 1956); Seguin Form Board, Colored Progressive Matrices
    (CPM, Raven 1956), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT; Dunn,1959), Stanford-Binet
    Test (S-B; Terman and Merrill, 1937) and VSMS, on the population of 60 children who
    were earlier diagnosed with intellectual disability. The study findings report moderate
    correlation within the range of 0.31 to 0.50 between SFB and the other tests.

    Seguin Form Board Test (SFB)


    Instructions to administer SFB

    Position: The board’s position is so placed that the star is toward the examiner. With the
    subject watching, the ten pieces are stacked in three piles, starting⬡ with the rectangle, in the
    order shown by the numbers below:

    Top Examiner’s left Middle Examiner’s right


    Hexagon ⬡ (3) Triangle ⃤ (7) Diamond◆(10)
    Oval ⭖ (2) Cross ╳ (6)
    Square ⬜ (5) Circle ◯ (9)
    Bottom Rectangle ▭ (1) Half-circle ⯊ (4) Star ☆ (8)

    Instructions:
    - For the child with proper hearing say, ‘ Put these back as fast as you can, ready, go’.
    - Start the stopwatch when you give the command.
    - Count any fraction of a second as a whole second. If any block is left partly outside,
    resting on the edge instead of fitting into the recess, do not record the time but treat
    the trial as incomplete.
    - Call the subject’s attention to the fact that the block or blocks were not complete in
    place.
    - For the deaf subject indicate with a gesture that the blocks are all to go back in their
    places. Use any manual sign for fast with which he is familiar.
    - Blocks should be stacked by the examiner rapidly, but without any suggestion of
    nervous haste; memorise the bottom to top order; to avoid any hesitation. Say nothing
    during the progress of a trial.
    - Make sure that the subject does not start before the signal is given.
    - The test consists of three trials, including any trial marked incomplete.

    Scoring and interpretation:


    - The score is the shortest time in seconds out of the three trials.
    - Convert the score into Mental age (MA) by referring to the norms. Compute
    intelligence quotient (IQ) by the formula IQ (MA/CA) X 100 where CA is
    chronological age.
    Note: Minimum MA- 3 years 5 months; Maximum MA- 10 years
    Maximum CA- 16 years (192 months)

    IQ interpretation

    Profound: 0- 20 (Disability - 100%)


    Severe: 21- 35 (Disability - 90%)
    Moderate: 36- 54 (Disability - 75%)
    Mild: 55-69 (Disability - 50%)
    Borderline: 70-84 (Disability - 25%

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