TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric Investigation of the Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices Test in a Sample of Preschool Children
AU - Lúcio, Patrícia Silva
AU - Cogo-Moreira, Hugo
AU - Puglisi, Marina
AU - Polanczyk, Guilherme Vanoni
AU - Little, Todd D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de São Paulo (FAPESP), Grant number 12/51624-1.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) test in a sample of preschoolers from Brazil (n = 582; age: mean = 57 months, SD = 7 months; 46% female). We investigated the plausibility of unidimensionality of the items (confirmatory factor analysis) and differential item functioning (DIF) for sex and age (multiple indicators multiple causes method). We tested four unidimensional models and the one with the best-fit index was a reduced form of the Raven’s CPM. The DIF analysis was carried out with the reduced form of the test. A few items presented DIF (two for sex and one for age), confirming that the Raven’s CPM items are mostly measurement invariant. There was no effect of sex on the general factor, but increasing age was associated with higher values of the g factor. Future research should indicate if the reduced form is suitable for evaluating the general ability of preschoolers.
AB - The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) test in a sample of preschoolers from Brazil (n = 582; age: mean = 57 months, SD = 7 months; 46% female). We investigated the plausibility of unidimensionality of the items (confirmatory factor analysis) and differential item functioning (DIF) for sex and age (multiple indicators multiple causes method). We tested four unidimensional models and the one with the best-fit index was a reduced form of the Raven’s CPM. The DIF analysis was carried out with the reduced form of the test. A few items presented DIF (two for sex and one for age), confirming that the Raven’s CPM items are mostly measurement invariant. There was no effect of sex on the general factor, but increasing age was associated with higher values of the g factor. Future research should indicate if the reduced form is suitable for evaluating the general ability of preschoolers.
KW - Raven’s Progressive Matrices
KW - confirmatory factor analysis
KW - differential item functioning
KW - preschoolers
KW - unidimensionality
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U2 - 10.1177/1073191117740205
DO - 10.1177/1073191117740205
M3 - Article
C2 - 29121785
AN - SCOPUS:85041311246
SN - 1073-1911
VL - 26
SP - 1399
EP - 1408
JO - Assessment
JF - Assessment
IS - 7
ER -