Beta
200128

A Comparison between the Psychometric Properties of Visuospatial and Verbal- Analytic Items in the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices

Article

Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

The current study investigated the psychometric properties of two subsets of the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices Test (APM) items, visuospatial (13 items) and verbal-analytic (12 items) as categorized by DeShon, Chan and Weissbein (1955). A model of 25 items was first subjected to confirmatory factor analysis which reduced these items to 15 which fitted the data adequately. Nine items were visuospatial and 6 were verbal-analytic. This finding lends support to the empirical literature which found some evidence of the still debatable issue concerning the multi-dimensionality of the APM. The two subsets were found to be comparable in many respects (item difficulties and discriminations, average performance of students in the two subsets, correlation with total APM score). No gender differences were found in both subsets. Moreover, while the visuospatial items were found to be more internally consistent than the verbal-analytic items, this was attributed to the smaller number of the latter subset of items in the model. The visuospatial subset had a small positive but significant correlation with GPA. Conversely, the verbal-analytic subset had a small positive insignificant correlation with GPA. No gender differences in both subsets were observed.

DOI

10.18576/ijlms/040203

Keywords

Psychometric Properties, Visuospatial, Verbal- Analytic, advanced

Authors

First Name

Ali

Last Name

Mohamed Ibrahim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ali

Last Name

Mahdi Kazem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

4

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

28230

Issue Date

2016-07-01

Receive Date

2021-10-18

Publish Date

2016-07-01

Page Start

1

Page End

8

Print ISSN

2090-8466

Online ISSN

2090-8474

Link

https://ijlms.journals.ekb.eg/article_200128.html

Detail API

https://ijlms.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=200128

Order

200,128

Type

Original Article

Type Code

2,015

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

International Journal of Learning Management Systems

Publication Link

https://ijlms.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

A Comparison between the Psychometric Properties of Visuospatial and Verbal- Analytic Items in the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023