Dr Margaret Lowenfeld

The aim of the present study was to determine whether or not the Lowenfeld Mosaic test might prove useful in predicting school readiness or unreadiness in children just starting kindergarten and the early primary grades. To determine this, we have analysed Mosaic responses of a sizeable group of beginning kindergarten, first and second grade subjects over a three-year period, noting whether the Mosaic response of any given individual remained consistent over a period of years; whether or not evaluations of children’s Mosaic responses agreed with evaluations of their responses on other types of readiness tests (developmental, visual); and also noting correspondence or lack of correspondence between teachers’ evaluations of readiness with results obtained from use of the Mosaic.