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| Author(s): |
Lucio, Patricia Silva
[1]
;
Cogo-Moreira, Hugo
[2]
;
Puglisi, Marina
[2]
;
Polanczyk, Guilherme Vanoni
[3]
;
Little, Todd D.
[4]
Total Authors: 5
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Estadual Londrina, Londrina, Parana - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[4] Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409 - USA
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | ASSESSMENT; v. 26, n. 7, p. 1399-1408, OCT 2019. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 3 |
| Abstract | |
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. (AU) | |