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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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The Effect of the Number and Types of Rules on Item Difficulty of Raven-type Test

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2008, v.27 no.2, pp.589-604


& (2008). The Effect of the Number and Types of Rules on Item Difficulty of Raven-type Test. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 27(2), 589-604.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the number and types of rules needed to solve the Raven's progressive Test on the degree of item difficulty. The effects of rule types and rule number were examined separately using two experiments. In Exp. 1, 33 participants experienced all 4 rules. These 4 rules were 2 Verbal-analytic rules (i.e., Row in constant rule and Quantitative progression rule) and 2 Visuo-spatial rules (i.e., Rotation and Reverse). The verbal-analytic rules were known as more complicated than the Visuo-spatial rules. The results showed that item difficulty of Row in constant rule was higher than visuo-spatial rules. In addition, we found that the item difficulties of the Quantitative progression rule and the Rotation rule were not significantly different. In Exp. 2, we manipulated number and type of rules (i.e., 1 easy rule vs. 1 difficult rule vs. 2 easy rules vs. 2 difficult rules) using 23 participants. The Exp. 2 showed the following results: 1) It took more time to solve problems which have 2 rules than 1 rule. 2) The interaction effect of number and type of rules was significant. That is, when only one rule was applied, it took more time to solve problems with difficult rule than easy rule, but no significant difference was found when two rules were applied. The implication of the results was discussed.

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Raven's progressive test, item difficulty, type of rules, number of rules, Raven 누진행렬검사, RPM, 규칙의 수, 규칙의 유형, 문항 난이도

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