Components of item difficulty of raven’s matrices

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 189-199

  Green, Kathy E ^a   Kluever, Raymond C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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EID: 0005700490     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221309.1992.9921172     Document Type: Article

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