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The reliability and validity of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices for Irish apprentices
Author(s) -
Moran Aidan P
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-0597.1986.tb00955.x
Subject(s) - raven's progressive matrices , apprenticeship , irish , test (biology) , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , validity , developmental psychology , psychometrics , cognition , philosophy , linguistics , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , biology , power (physics)
The Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) is a ‘test of a person's capacity at the time of the test to apprehend meaningless figures presented for his observation, see the relations between them, conceive the nature of the figure completing each system of relations presented and, by so doing, develop a systematic method of reasoning’ (Raven et al., 1983, p. 2). It was developed in Britain in the mid‐1930s (see Penrose and Raven, 1936) as a non‐verbal measure of Spearman's ‘g’ factor, eduction of relations among abstract items.