English in Hong Kong: A preliminary study of the ACER word knowledge test - Form F and the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices as indicators of verbal reasoning ability and abstract reasoning ability among Hong Kong University students

Educational Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 330-336

  Stone, Raymond ^a   Wong, Gilbert ^b   Susanna, Lo ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

ACER; Australian; Hong Kong, english standards; Progressive matrices; Word knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354855     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001318800440641     Document Type: Article

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