Examiner-led assessment 1923

Kohs Block Design Tests

Seventeen original designs

The assessment

Reproduce 17 colored designs with blocks while an examiner records completion, time, and moves. The guided record displays each original design and calculates its score from the published deductions.

  • Spatial analysis
  • Construction
  • Problem solving

Your results, your choice

Complete the assessment to see a free preview. The full test report brings together your scores and the results recorded for this examination.

Percentile score is free. Full reports cost a small fee.

From the archive

Origins

Samuel C. Kohs developed block-design tests as a performance-based way to examine reasoning. His 1923 monograph, Intelligence Measurement, published the designs, administration method, and scoring tables for this examination.

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