Sex differential item functioning in the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices: Evidence for bias

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1459-1470

  Abad, Francisco J ^a   Colom, Roberto ^a   Rebollo, Irene ^a   Escorial, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced Progressive Matrices Test; Differential Item Functioning; General intelligence; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542318595     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00241-1     Document Type: Article

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