The present study aimed to find technical bases in order to examine the reliability of using Goodenough Drawing Scale (1926/1964) in actual reality. It focused on the interscorer agreement and the temporal stability of the results after a period of six months. The study group was composed of 60 male and female, public school children from the city of São Carlos (SP). The children ranged in age from seven to nine years old. The study found a correlation value of 0,63 (Pearson) among average scores (independent assessment by three examiners) obtained in both the test and retest evaluations. The interscorer agreement (Kendall's Agreement Coefficient) did not show significant differences among the results attributed to the examiners (p = 0,07). The general correlation coefficient (Pearson) among examiners was 0,98 for the test and 0,99 for the retest. The results in this study showed a high degree of reliability for this technique even nowadays and in our current social-cultural context.
Cognitive evaluation; Goodenough Drawing; Scale; Reliability; Temporal stability
