Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version
Cognitive ability of adolescents is often measured using the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM). However, the RSPM knows a long administration time which may be suboptimal, as time-on-task effects are known to increase fatigue, to lower motivation, and to worsen performance on cognitive ta...
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| description | Cognitive ability of adolescents is often measured using the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM). However, the RSPM knows a long administration time which may be suboptimal, as time-on-task effects are known to increase fatigue, to lower motivation, and to worsen performance on cognitive tasks. Therefore, a shortened version for adolescents was developed recently. In the current preregistered study we investigated this shortened version in a sample of adolescents (N = 99) of average educational backgrounds. We tested whether the shortened RSPM is a valid alternative to the original RSPM, which proved to be the case, as we observed a moderate to high correlation between the two versions. Moreover, we tested version effects on fatigue, motivation and performance. Fatigue was lower and motivation was higher after completing the short compared to the original version, and performance was better in the short compared to the original version. However, additional analyses suggested that beneficial version effects on performance were not due to reduced time-on-task, but due to the short version containing less difficult items than the original version. Moreover, version related differences in performance were not related to version related differences in fatigue and motivation. We conclude that the shortened version of the RSPM is a valid alternative to the original version, and that the shortened version is beneficial in terms of fatigue and motivation, but that these beneficial effects on fatigue and motivation do not carry over to performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1d370dcb5b74752a0dc9bf880e4c3a02023-11-17T19:54:02ZengMDPI AGJournal of Intelligence2079-32002023-04-011147210.3390/jintelligence11040072Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened VersionAnne-Wil Kramer0Hilde M. Huizenga1Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The NetherlandsDepartment of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCognitive ability of adolescents is often measured using the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM). However, the RSPM knows a long administration time which may be suboptimal, as time-on-task effects are known to increase fatigue, to lower motivation, and to worsen performance on cognitive tasks. Therefore, a shortened version for adolescents was developed recently. In the current preregistered study we investigated this shortened version in a sample of adolescents (N = 99) of average educational backgrounds. We tested whether the shortened RSPM is a valid alternative to the original RSPM, which proved to be the case, as we observed a moderate to high correlation between the two versions. Moreover, we tested version effects on fatigue, motivation and performance. Fatigue was lower and motivation was higher after completing the short compared to the original version, and performance was better in the short compared to the original version. However, additional analyses suggested that beneficial version effects on performance were not due to reduced time-on-task, but due to the short version containing less difficult items than the original version. Moreover, version related differences in performance were not related to version related differences in fatigue and motivation. We conclude that the shortened version of the RSPM is a valid alternative to the original version, and that the shortened version is beneficial in terms of fatigue and motivation, but that these beneficial effects on fatigue and motivation do not carry over to performance.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/11/4/72Raven’s standard progressive matricesshort versionfatiguemotivationadolescents |
| spellingShingle | Anne-Wil Kramer Hilde M. Huizenga Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version Journal of Intelligence Raven’s standard progressive matrices short version fatigue motivation adolescents |
| title | Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version |
| title_full | Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version |
| title_fullStr | Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version |
| title_full_unstemmed | Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version |
| title_short | Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for Adolescents: A Case for a Shortened Version |
| title_sort | raven s standard progressive matrices for adolescents a case for a shortened version |
| topic | Raven’s standard progressive matrices short version fatigue motivation adolescents |
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