Variation in Raven's Progressive Matrices scores across time and place

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 330-338

  Brouwers, Symen A ^a   Van de Vijver, Fons J R ^a,b   Van Hemert, Dianne A ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparisons; Flynn effect; Intelligence; Raven's Progressive Matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952744837     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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