Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Plus (SPM Plus)

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

Benefits

• Use in a variety of settings, such as testing culturally diverse populations, to minimize the impact of cultural or language bias.
• Available in a variety of pre-packaged kits for easy purchase and a discounted price from the individual components.

Features

The SPM test has a total of 60 items presented in 5 sets (A-E) of 12 items. The SPM Plus contains more powerful items while retaining the five-set, sixty-item format of the SPM.

• Multiple manuals contain test administration and interpretation guides, as well as research and technical information.
• Each version of the Raven’s Progressive Matrices is administered by use of a booklet containing the version specific matrices.
• Easy Score Answer Sheets transfer answers from the front page directly to translate responses into scores.
• Easy Score Answer Forms eliminates the need for scoring keys in most situations.

The following resources are available for CPM.

Manuals

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 below.

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

Manual Section 2 Coloured Progressive Matrices 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 3 Standard Progressive Matrices 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 4 Advanced Progressive Matrices 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 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

Manual Section 1 General Overview (1998 Edition, Updated 2003)

• 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