Visual Motor Integration in Early Adolescence: A cross-gender evaluation of the Full Range Test of Visual-Motor Integration using Rasch analysis in Three Arab Countries

The purpose of this project is to sought to provide initial validation of the FRTVMI in early adolescence in three GCC countries, namely Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait. Specifically, it sets out to answer the following questions: 1. What are the psychometric properties of the FRTVMI on a sample of adolescents in the three Arab countries? 2. To what extent is the one-dimensional structure of the FRTVMI achieved in the evidence of the current study? 3. Do the FRTVMI questions exhibited differential item functioning by gender on a sample of adolescents in the three Arab countries? 4. To what extent can the FRTVMI be scaled using the Rasch model? Are the scaling results consistent with those of previous studies in different cultures or environments? The study aiming to provide detailed descriptions of the psychometric properties of the FRTVMI and its scalability using Rasch analysis on a sample of adolescents in the in three GCC countries, namely Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait. Data will be covering different geographical sectors in these countries, in addition to the necessity of achieving diversity in the level of academic performance in both of boys and girls of the selected sample. The study is consistent with the current growing interest in the assessment of cognitive, linguistic, and other related skills that can predict student?s current or future school performance as well as greater growing interest of the Ministries of Education in the Arab region in preparing and developing various measures that can be used in data collection and improving decision-making procedures in educational institutions. Since no much investigations of the validity of FRTVMI on the adolescents been conducted in these countries to date, the project is expected to make a valuable contribution to the field by filling a gap in the existing literature.