Various testing-the-limits procedures were employed in administering the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices test to 108 subjects with learning difficulties (age range 8.4 to 12.9 years). (Author)

The feasibility of administering some tests directly under computer management was investigated with Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (RPMT), a nonverbal test of general aptitude, chosen as the instrument for the study. Subjects were 76 deaf students in a vocationally-oriented postsecondary educational program. Half of the subjects were tested…

Noting that the identification of exceptional potential in young children must become a better informed process in order to provide appropriate schooling to develop that potential, the purpose of this study was to extend knowledge of the many ways in which emerging gifted ability in children from diverse backgrounds may show itself in home and…

Item responses of two samples each of 622 normal and 573 educable mentally retarded children, 6 to 15 years of age, on Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices were submitted to a principal components analysis and varimax rotation. The following four factors were obtained: continuity and reconstruction of simple and complex structures, discrete…

The validity of a learning potential assessment procedure with institutionalized moderately and severely retarded adolescents and adults was examined with 38 Ss. (Author)

Compared was the relative predictive power of learning potential (LP) and IQ measures for 54 low-income Spanish-speaking students (grades 2 through 6) in a transitional bilingual urban school. Ss were administered the Raven LP procedure, the Semantic Test of Intelligence, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in Spanish, and the WISC…