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An Examination of Possible Item Bias in the Responses of Spanish-Speaking and English-Speaking Children on the Cooperative Preschool Inventory Using Logit Regression.

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Powers, Stephen; And Others – 1985

A total of 102 Spanish-speaking and 104 English-speaking preschool 4-year-old pupils were individually administered the Spanish and English versions of the Cooperative Preschool Inventory (CPI) to examine item responses for possible bias. Miminum logit chi-square regression was applied to each of the 30 items of the CPI verbal scale. Each of the…

Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Analysis, Culture Fair Tests, Preschool Children

Validity of the Standard Progressive Matrices as a Predictor of Achievement of Sixth and Seventh Grade Students.

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Powers, Stephen; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986

The predictive validity of the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) was examined with a sample of 212 sixth-grade students and 214 seventh-grade students. Correlation coefficients between the SPM and the California Achievement Tests of Reading, Language, and Mathematics ranged from .34 to .60. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests

Concurrent Validity of the Standard Progressive Matrices for Hispanic and NonHispanic Seventh-Grade Students.

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Powers, Stephen; Barkan, Jerry H. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986

Correlations between the Standard Progressive Matrices test (SPM) and the California Achievement Test, Reading, Language, and Mathematics Tests were examined for 99 Hispanic and 93 non-Hispanic Caucasian seventh-grade students. All correlations were highly significant. Supports continued use of the SPM as a measure of nonverbal intellectual…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Concurrent Validity, Culture Fair Tests