Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices is a leading global non-verbal measure of mental ability, helping to identify individuals with advanced observation and clear thinking skills who can handle the complexity and ambiguity of the modern workplace. Raven’s™ offers information about someone’s capacity for analyzing and solving problems, abstract reasoning, and the ability to learn and reduces cultural bias with a nonverbal approach.

There are 4 versions of the Raven’s™ available:

• Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices – Standard 2.0
• Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices – Standard Plus
• Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices – Advanced
• Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices – Adaptive (NEW 2022)

The RPM assessments are all available online, in single copies.  Paper versions may also be purchased.

Note: All versions are B-Level assessments.  User requirements are below.

By publisher policy, this assessment is only to be administered in a proctored setting. The test administrator will take necessary steps to ensure the test is always administered in a proctored and secure environment.

Response to Intervention

The concept of Response to Intervention (RTI) is changing the landscape for assessment professionals and opening new avenues for you to help guide students on the path to success every step of the way. We can help you make the most of this opportunity to expand your influence on young lives.

A Balanced View of RTI

 There are four essential components of RTI:

• A school-wide, multiple-level instructional and behavioral system for preventing school failure
• Screening
• Progress Monitoring
• Data-based decision making for instruction, movement with-in the multi-level system and disability identification

The National Center on Response to Intervention offers a definition of response to intervention that reflects what is currently known from research and evidence-based practices and supports the implementation of a comprehensive RTI framework.

Response to intervention integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavioral problems. With RTI, schools use data to identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions, and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities or other disabilities.

Raven’s™ Versions

Standard 2.0 RPM

Primary Use: Selection
Assessment Type: Cognitive: Non-Verbal Reasoning
Job Level: Individual Contributor; Manager; Professional
Job Type: All
Number of Items: 30
Estimated Time: 47 minutes (timed)
Administration Format: Unproctored
Available Languages: English

The Raven’s™ SPM provides information about an individual’s capacity for analyzing and solving problems, abstract reasoning, and ability to learn.

While both the Raven’s™ SPM and SPM Plus are suitable for use for entry-level management and mid-level individual contributor positions, the SPM Plus is a somewhat more difficult assessment and provides better differentiation for higher level positions.

The SPM or SPM Plus score can be used as an indication of a candidate’s potential for success in professional, management and high-level technical positions that require clear thinking, problem identification, holistic situation assessment, and monitoring of tentative solutions for consistency with all available information. The SPM or SPM Plus score also can be used for developmental purposes in occupational and educational settings. The nonverbal aspect of each test minimizes the impact of cultural or language bias.

The Raven’s™ SPM and SPM Plus each produces a single raw score as well as percentile rank to indicate the candidate’s educative ability or the ability to think clearly and extract meaning out of events, compared to a norm group.

The report provides the candidate’s raw score and norm-based percentile score. This is supplemented with a brief narrative report.

Six norm groups are available:

• Managers
• Employed Adults
• Executives and Directors
• Professionals and Individual Contributors
• HR Professionals
• Sales Representatives

 

Standard Plus RPM

Primary Use: Selection
Assessment Type: Cognitive: Non-Verbal Reasoning
Job Level: Individual Contributor; Manager; Professional
Job Type: All
Number of Items: 60
Estimated Time: 47 minutes (timed)
Administration Format: Unproctored
Available Languages: English

Raven’s™ SPM Plus is an assessment of non-verbal reasoning. It is comprised of 60 multiple choice items and can be completed in approximately 45 minutes. The Raven’s™ SPM Plus provides information about an individual’s capacity for analyzing and solving problems, abstract reasoning, and ability to learn.

Advanced RPM

Primary Use: Selection
Assessment Type: Cognitive: Non-Verbal Reasoning
Job Level: Manager; Professional
Job Type: All
Number of Items: 25
Estimated Time: 42 minutes (timed)
Administration Format: Unproctored
Available Languages: English UK, English UK, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Italian, Indian English, US Spanish, Danish, German, Australian, French, Singaporean English.

Raven’s™ APM measures high-level observation skills, clear thinking ability, and intellectual capacity. This untimed test is designed to differentiate between people at the high end of intellectual ability. When administered under timed conditions, the APM can also be used to assess intellectual efficiency – quick and accurate high-level intellectual work.

Raven’s™ Advanced Progressive Matrices (v2.0) is an assessment of high-level non-verbal reasoning. It is designed to differentiate individuals at the high end of intellectual ability. It is comprised of 25 items and can be completed in 42 minutes. The Raven’s APM provides information about an individual’s capacity for analyzing and solving problems, abstract reasoning, and ability to learn at a high level. It is designed for use with senior management and high level professional technical positions. It differs from the prior version of the Advanced Progressive Matrices in that it is timed and shorter with 25 as opposed to 48 items.

The APM score can be used as an indication of a candidate’s potential for success in high-level technical, professional, and executive positions that require high levels of clear and accurate thinking, problem identification, holistic situation assessment, and monitoring of tentative solutions for consistency with all available information. The APM score also can be used for developmental purposes in occupational and advanced educational settings. The nonverbal aspect of the test minimizes the impact of cultural or language bias.

The report provides the candidate’s raw score and norm-based percentile score. This is supplemented with a brief narrative report.

Four norm groups are available:

• Professionals and Individual Contributors
• Executives
• Directors
• Managers

 

Adaptive RPM – NEW 2022

Primary Use: Selection and Development
Assessment Type: Cognitive: General Mental Ability (GMA) through the measurement of abstract reasoning
Job Level: Entry level through to managerial job roles
Job Type: Any role requiring individuals to have an expected level of GMA and grasp new concerts quickly
Number of Items: 15
Estimated Time: 11 minutes (timed)
Administration Format: Unproctored
Available Languages: German, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Spanish (Spain, International Sort), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), Indonesia – Indonesian, Italian (Italy), Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Vietnamese, Turkish (Turkey), Thai, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese

Raven’s™ Adaptive is a non-verbal, online, and adaptive, test. Abstract reasoning is defined as the ability to analyze information, detect patterns and relationships, and solve problems on an intangible level. Abstract reasoning tests are widely used by psychologists to measure general mental ability (GMA). This test measures levels of fluid intelligence that individuals tap into when working out new and unfamiliar problems for the first time.

Abstract reasoning skills can be seen in situations that require:

• Lateral thinking
• Learning new concepts quickly
• Solving new and complex problems without drawing on prior knowledge

Individuals with higher scores on this assessment are more likely to learn or “grasp” new things quickly, think laterally, solve unfamiliar problems and make meaning out of confusion.

As a non-verbal measure, the test can provide a fairer measure of GMA for groups of job applicants containing individuals with different native languages.

The main features of this new test in the DAT series are:

• the test is suitable for unsupervised (unproctored) administration due to an “item-bank” design whereby items (questions) are selected from a large pool.
• it is also suitable for online completion in a supervised environment such as an assessment or development center.
• adaptive testing offers a shorter test that not only improves the candidate’s experience but can also provide the assessor with a score that is more reliable.  CAT presents items that adapt to the ability level of each test taker.  CAT tests allow higher ability test takers to demonstrate their skill whilst those with a lower ability find the test more motivating.
• the adaptive nature of the test allows individuals with differing levels of GMA to be assessed with the same test.
• One of the most proven predictors of performance in roles requiring the ability to solve new and complex problems, and learn quickly
• Non-verbal – reduces potential linguistic bias, and minimizes effect of prior knowledge / verbal ability

When to use the Raven’s^™ Adaptive:

• Abstract reasoning is the ability to see underlying patterns and identify the subtle relationships between seemingly unrelated things. It involves considering problems at a deeper level and seeing the bigger picture meaning. Abstract reasoning underpins our ability to learn and grasp new concepts and tasks quickly.
• In the world of work, problems are rarely straightforward and not everything has a right or wrong answer. Being able to work out the themes and principles that link complex information is an essential skill.

Three norm groups are available:

• US – Director & Executive
• US – Manager
• US – Prof / Individual Contributor

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If purchasing replacement manuals for administration of Standard, or Advanced you will need the following manuals:

Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM, SPM Parallel, SPM Plus)

• Manual Section 1 General Overview (1998 Edition, Updated 2003)
• Manual Section 3 Standard Progressive Matrices

Advanced Progressive Matrices (Set 1 & 2) 

• Manual Section 1 General Overview (1998 Edition, Updated 2003)
• Manual Section 4 Advanced Progressive Matrices
• Manual Section 1 General Overview (1998 Edition, Updated 2003)

Essential for use with all Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary Scales:

• Theoretical basis of the Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices and MHV
• Nature of educative and reproductive abilities and their link to competence
• Role of heritability and the environment
• Ethnic and socio-economic issues
• Maturation and ‘decline’ of educative and reproductive ability
• Implications of findings for society and psychologists
• Reporting results: the need for contextual information, especially on other aspects of competence
• Applications in educational, clinical and occupational practice
• Relationships between the three forms of the Matrices
• Development of the Items
• Format of the Item Analyses
• Relationship between the forms of the MHV
• Addendum: the scientific status of educative ability and understanding item difficulty

Manual Section 5 Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale 1998 Edition

• Gives details of development, administration, scoring, reporting results and interpretation
• Range of normative data
• Summary reviews of reliability and validity studies
• Fuller details are available in the Research Supplements

Manual Section 6 Crichton Vocabulary Scale 1988 Edition

• Gives details of development, administration, scoring, reporting results and interpretation
• Range of normative data
• Summary reviews of reliability and validity studies
• Fuller details are available in the Research Supplements

Manual Section 7 Research 1995 Edition

• Tables giving brief summaries for each of the tests of all normative, reliability and validity studies
• Source of the study, brief details about the population studied, numbers of respondents involved, results obtained, and comments

Features & Benefits

Kits

Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices is available in a variety of pre-packaged Kits for easy purchase and a discounted price from the individual components. Customers can purchase specific Standard, or Advanced Kits or a Complete Kit containing all three versions.

Answer Forms

Most versions of the Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices have Easy Score Answer Sheets. These are double page forms that transfer answers from the front page directly to a back page designed to translate responses into scores.

Test Booklets

Each version of the Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices is administered by use of a booklet containing the version specific matrices. These can be reused over time, or some have used them as the Answer Sheet as well (although this can be quite expensive). Test Booklets can be purchased individually or in packages of ten for group administration.

Manuals

Raven’s™ Progressive Matrices have a long and distinguished history of research. There are six (6) manuals available (officially referred to as Sections 1 – 6) that not only discuss how to administer and interpret the test but contain numerous research and technical information as well.

When purchasing a Kit, all of the manuals relevant to the version you are purchasing are included. If you wish to purchase additional Manuals, detailed descriptions of their content are listed in the Manual section below.

Scoring Keys

Easy Score Answer Forms have eliminated the need for Scoring Keys in most situations. If you still have large numbers of Hand-Scorable Answer Forms, or several of the versions we have not yet revised, the Scoring Keys are listed with the appropriate Answer Form.

B-Level Assessment Purchase Requirements:

A master’s degree in psychology, education, occupational therapy, social work, or in a field closely related to the intended use of the assessment, and formal training in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical assessments.

OR

Certification by or full active membership in a professional organization (such as ASHA, AOTA, AERA, ACA, AMA, CEC, AEA, AAA, EAA, NAEYC, NBCC) that requires training and experience in the relevant area of assessment.

OR

A degree or license to practice in the healthcare or allied healthcare field.

OR

Formal, supervised mental health, speech/language, and/or educational training specific to assessing children, or in infant and child development, and formal training in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical assessments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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