Performance on Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices by African, East Indian, and White engineering students in South Africa

The hypothesis is tested that the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) has the same construct validity in African university students as it does in non-African university students. Analyses were made of scores from 294 highly select 17–23-year-olds in the Faculties of Engineering and the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Intelligence (Norwood) 2003-01, Vol.31 (2), p.123-137
Hauptverfasser:	Rushton, J.Philippe, Skuy, Mervyn, Fridjhon, Peter
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Africa African people Biological and medical sciences Cognition. Intelligence College Students Construct Validity Cultural Differences East Indian people Engineering Foreign Countries Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology g loadings Higher Education Hypotheses Intellectual and cognitive abilities Intelligence Intelligence tests Jensen effects Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Racial Differences Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices South Africa Students Universities University students White people
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Zusammenfassung:	The hypothesis is tested that the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) has the same construct validity in African university students as it does in non-African university students. Analyses were made of scores from 294 highly select 17–23-year-olds in the Faculties of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand (187 Africans, 40 East Indians, 67 Whites; 70 women, 224 men). Out of a total of 36 problems, the African students solved an average of 22, the East Indian students, 25, and the White students, 29 ( P
ISSN:	0160-2896 1873-7935
DOI:	10.1016/S0160-2896(02)00140-X