Concurrent Validity of the standard progressive matrices for Hispanic and nonHispanic and seventh-grade students
✍ Scribed by Stephen Powers; Jerry H. Barkan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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✦ Synopsis
Correlations between the Standard Progressive Matrices test (SPM) and the California Achievement Test, Reading, Language, and Mathematics Tests were examined for 99 Hispanic and 93 nonHispanic Caucasian seventh-grade students in the Southwest. All correlations were highly significant, indicating concurrent validity of the SPM. Correlations computed separately for Hispanic and nonHispanic students also were compared; those differences were not significant. This evidence supports the continued use of the SPM as a measure of nonverbal intellectual ability for Hispanic and nonHispanic students. The three forms of the Progressive Matrices-the Standard, Coloured, and Advancedare the best known and most widely used of all culture-reduced tests (Jensen, 1980). These three nonverbal mental ability tests originated in England, and much of the research has been carried out in European, African, and Asiatic countries. Yet there has been criticism of the tests from notable sources. Cronbach (1984) criticized the test Requests for reprints should be sent to Stephen Powers, Legal and Research Services, Tucson Unified School District, P.O. Box 40400, Tucson, A 2 85717.