SCREENING-TEST OF ORGANICITY - TRAIL MAKI NG TEST

The authors describe the results of a pilot study that represents a pa rt of the Trail Making Test standardization in Czech children aged 9-1 4 years. The authors studied the healthy school children and compared them with American children (Reitan, 1971) and Spanish children (Leon- Carrion, 1989). The examining of 93 children (48 girls and 45 boys) ha s shown that the results are very close to the American ones and signi ficantly better than the Spanish ones. The results of Czech children w ere (M = 13.3, SD = 4.6) in part A and (M = 28.1, SD = 11.3) in part B . Differences between boys and girls were not statistically significan t, which corresponds to the previous findings. Correlation with age wa s 0.402 in part A, and 0.531 in part B. The authors assume a low cultu ral determination of the test, but they point out the correct administ ration of the test and the composition of the sample examined. They st ate that this test is contributing within clinical and pedagogical pra ctice, in pharmacology and neuropsychology. The results support the ut ility of the test and of further home studies aimed at finding differe nces among healthy children, children with brain disfunctions and more serious damages of the brain, and the including of the test into a wi der spectrum of psychological tests.