Factor Structures of Retarded and Nonretarded Children On Raven's Progressive Matrices

2 July 1974

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement

Vol. 34 (2) , 407-412
https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447403400226

Abstract

Item responses of two samples of normal and educable mentally retarded (EMR) children on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices were submitted to a principal components analysis and varimax rotation. Four factors were obtained which corresponded to readily identifiable problem types. The factor structure for both retarded and nonretarded subjects was replicated by an independent sample. Comparability of factor structures of normal and retarded subjects indicated the factorial invariance of this test with children of different IQ levels.

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