Harcourt Assessment is proud to announce the recent acquisition of the Raven’s Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary Scales. All of these materials are now available from Harcourt and partner companies throughout the world.

The Raven’s Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary Scales are in wide use throughout the world and come in a variety of formats to cover educational, clinical and occupational uses.

Used together the tests can quickly assess general cognitive ability or intelligence. The Matrices are probably the best known example of a tool to measure to eductive ability, with the Vocabulary Scales providing measures of reproductive ability. Together, these two components, can be thought of as measuring ‘General Intelligence’ – often referred to as ‘g’ in the psychological literature.

Raven’s Progressive Matrices
A measure of eductive ability – the ability to make sense and meaning out of complex or confusing data; the ability to perceive new patterns and relationships, and to forge (largely non-verbal) constructs which make it easy to handle complexity.

The Raven’s Progressive Matrices comes in 3 formats:

• Colour Progressive Matrices (CPM) (for use with children and elderly people) 

• Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) (for use with the general population) 

• Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) (top 20% of the population and especially useful at management grades.)

Raven’s Vocabulary Scales
Measures of reproductive ability – the ability to store, process and utilise a culture’s store of (largely verbal) information and knowledge.

There are 3 formats for the Raven’s Vocabulary Scales:

• Crichton Vocabulary Scales (CVS) (for use with the CPM) 

• Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale (MHV) (for use with SPM) 

• MHV – Senior Form (for use with APM)

Although these two abilities frequently work in tandem, they are very different from each other. Many Occupational (HR), Educational and Clinical settings call for both to be assessed and interpreted.

Raven’s Progressive Matrices have a wide variety of applications including:

• In educational settings the Matrices have a long history of application and use. Scores are relatively unaffected by linguistic and ethnic background and can be used as a good predictor of success in an educational context for both children and adults.

• In clinical settings the reliability of the measures and lack of bias makes them ideal tools in neuropsychological assessment, working with elderly people and many clinical groups whose particular needs make the demands of more traditional cognitive testing unrealistic.

• For many years the Matrices have found wide application in numerous research studies. Their strong theoretical background, lengthy citation count and application across multiple language, ethnic and cultural groups make them ideal tools for investigations requiring measurements of cognitive abilities in a wide range of organisational, educational and clinical settings.

• In organisational and HR settings identifying key staff who can more easily handle the cognitive complexity of the modern workplace. The Matrices have applications from the entry level of the organisation through to senior management. Used in conjunction with the Vocabulary scales, they are able to offer a wide ranging and easy to use measure of ability in both recruitment and development decisions.

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