The World Game test
Gifted Institute is the only provider in Denmark offering the World Game test. The World Game is originally developed in the Netherlands, and Gifted Institute has spent recent years working closely with international researchers to enhance the test, sharpening its effectiveness in identifying giftedness and evaluating personal well-being.
The result from a World Game test provides an immediate overview of the child's well-being and offers crucial insights into the child's inner and outer world.
The design of the World Game test is nonverbal, and therefore the child is not required to speak to complete the test. The child can thus perform the test without having to support or explain anything verbally. Testing with the World Game method is therefore highly effective for non-verbal children or children afraid of failing - including children in psychological distress. Since it does not require reading, linguistic, or mathematical skills, it is also a test that is well-received by younger children.
World Game can be used to explore cognitive, socio-emotional, and pedagogical aspects of children and youth from 2.3 years and up. Gifted Institute further utilizes World Game as a supplementary assessment method for other test results and when evaluating adults.
The test situation with World Game proceeds such that the child is asked to build a village using a set of specially defined blocks. Through an analysis and calculation based on the child's village, we gain insight into three aspects of the child:
- The child's cognitive abilities (how does the child explore the world around them?)
- The child's current emotional state (how does the child experience their world?)
- The pedagogical aspect of a child (how does the child manage their world, how is it approached?)
Practical Information
World Game is a projective test that reveals insights into a child's psychological state. Using a set of defined blocks and figures, the child is asked to build a village. Depending on how the village is constructed, and potentially supplemented by the narrative the child creates around the village, we can draw conclusions about well-being and giftedness.
At Gifted Institute, we use World Game as our primary testing tool for assessing children's well-being. We utilize World Game because it can quickly provide an impression of the child's psychological condition while simultaneously creating an excellent opportunity to observe the child in action.
In recent years, Gifted Institute has researched and developed World Game in collaboration with international researchers - and in the process tested over 2650 children and youth in Denmark. We additionally participate in educating and certifying new World Game testers both nationally and internationally.
The World Game test can be performed on children and youth from age 2.3 years and up, and requires very few prerequisites from the child.
The test is consequently well-suited for children experiencing psychological distress.
The entire World Game test process lasts about one hour, which includes a verbal result discussion. No written feedback is provided for the World Game test. However, in the context of enrollment in a school for gifted children, a brief written statement can be prepared for the school.
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