Element salience as a predictor of item difficulty for Raven's Progressive Matrices

Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-368

  Meo, Maria ^a   Roberts, Maxwell J ^b   Marucci, Francesco S ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Element salience; Inductive reasoning; Intelligence testing; Item difficulty; Raven matrices; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247127410     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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