Ife PsychologIA 2014, 22(2), 27-35

Copyright 2014 Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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A Standardisation study of the Ravens Coloured Progressive Matrices in Ghana

Adote Anum
Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon
Email: aanum@ug.edu.gh
The Ravens Progressive Matrices test was developed as a test of Spearmans concept of
general intelligence or index of g which measures an ability that is not influenced by
external factors. The purpose of this study was to develop local norms for children in
Ghana and to test the hypothesis that test scores on the progressive matrices are not
influenced by socio- cultural factors. Seven hundred and sixty-three children selected
from both urban and rural locations were administered with the Ravens Colored
Progressive Matrices. We found expected gradual developmental change in scores
associated with increase in age. This increase was different for children from urban and
rural populations. Children from rural areas consistently lagged behind in test scores
and this difference got bigger between nine and eleven years. We associate the
difference between urban and rural children to differences in socio-economic
opportunities and conclude that these are two different populations and therefore need
to have different comparative norms. The findings also challenge the perceived notion
that the progressive matrices measures ability that are not influenced by education and
cultural factors.
Keywords: Children, cognitive assessment, general intelligence, Ghana, RCPM
Intelligence and its measurement is one of
the most complex concepts in psychology.
To simplify the construct of intelligence,
psychologists divided intelligence into two
broad domains general and specific
mental abilities (Jensen, 1998). This
classification was inspired by Charles
Spearmans assertion in 1904 that a
common factor underlies all mental
abilities. The general factor of intelligence
(g) is the ability that is reflected in all tests
while the specific component is unique only
to that test or a limited number of tests.
Spearman postulated the g factor to explain
correlations he found to exist among
diverse tests of perceiving, reasoning, and
thinking.

and 12 items within a set with latter items

becoming
increasingly
difficult.
The
Advanced
Progressive
Matrices
was
designed for individuals of above-average
intelligence. The third version, the Colored
Progressive Matrices, was designed for
children aged 5 through 11 years old, the
elderly, and mentally and physically
impaired individuals. Unlike the two
previous versions, most of the items are
presented on a colored background to make
the test visually stimulating for young
participants.
The Progressive Matrices is widely regarded
as the best or one of the best tests of
general intelligence (Court, 1983; Jensen,
1998). The test has therefore been used in a
variety of situations that include but not
limited clinical assessment, educational
placement, and predicting job performance
(Raven, 2000; Vincent & Cox, 1974) thus,
making the progressive matrices one of the
most widely used matrix reasoning test in
different countries.

General intelligence is usually measured by

the performance subtests or non-verbal
measures of cognitive ability. They are also
measured by matrix reasoning or tests of
abstract reasoning which have typically
been designed to assess general intelligence
tests. An example of this is the Ravens
Progressive Matrices (RPM). There are three
versions of the progressive matrices. The
Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) which
was the first to be published in 1938 was
designed to test analytical reasoning
through visual analogies. There are five sets

In Ghana the progressive matrices is used

widely primarily for clinical purposes and
for job selection. The progressive matrices
is useful in Ghana for a number of reasons.
There are very few standardized tests that
have been developed in Ghana to measure
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intellectual functioning in both children

and adults. Therefore a quick and
unbiased measure of intelligence becomes
particularly useful. The other advantage
that the RPM provides is that the RPM is
non-verbal. Ghanaian children grow up
speaking two or more languages (i.e., one or
more local dialects and English).
Most
children,
however,
do
not
start
communicating in the English language
until they are in school especially in the
rural areas. Since the progressive matrices
has minimal verbal instructions and verbal
response it avoids the difficulties and
confounds associated with translating
English instructions into local languages.
Finally, the RPM is intended to measure an
ability that is not affected by social or
educational
variations.
The
test
requirement does not depend on acquired
knowledge and being non-verbal it has been
considered one of the most culture-fair
instruments. This makes it a measure of
choice to assess individual differences
between groups that vary greatly along
socioeconomic characteristics which is a
reflection of differences between urban and
rural populations. Poverty levels are higher
in rural areas and the quality of education
is also lower. The progressive matrices is
therefore particularly useful for measuring
individual differences in cognitive ability
between rural and urban children where
the effects of these external differences are
very noticeable.

current study, the primary objective was to

develop local norms for the childrens
version of the progressive matrices, Ravens
Colored Progressive Matrices (RCPM) among
school children in Ghana.
Group Differences on Progressive Matrices
Cross-cultural studies in Africa and Asia
have shown that there are group differences
in scores that may be attributed to sociocultural factors. For example, Kaniel and
Fisherman
(1991)
demonstrated
that
children from impoverished backgrounds
had significantly lower scores on the
Progressive Matrices when compared with
children of the same age but of upper or
middle class backgrounds. In their study
Kaniel and Fisherman compared the nonverbal intelligence test scores of Ethiopian
and Israeli Jews using the RPM among a
sample of 14- and 15-year old boys and
girls who had immigrated to Israel one year
earlier with native Israeli children between
9 and 15 years. The Ethiopian children
demonstrated a delay of 4 to 5 years
placing them between the 5th and 10th
percentile rank while most of the Israeli
children fell within Raven's normative scale.
There have been very few studies done in
Africa in which the performance on the
RPM has been compared across different
socio-cultural and economic groups. These
have usually been in South Africa, where
most of these comparisons have been
between Black and White South Africans
(e.g., Lynn & Owen, 1994; Rushton & Skuy,
2000). The researchers have consistently
reported lower scores for Black Africans on
the Ravens progressive matrices with IQ
equivalents between 60 and 75. In Ghana,
Glewwe and Jacoby (1992) found that
scores of adolescent children on the
Ravens
progressive
matrices
was
significantly lower when compared to the
British published norms. However, the
authors did not compare performance
between different socioeconomic groups.
The children used in the study were
selected from the public school system
(which is usually associated with lower
income families). The test scores from this
study may therefore be a reflection of the
performance of children from only a specific
socioeconomic group.

The progressive matrices has been used as

a measure of g and because of its predictive
ability in a variety of situations. However,
available evidence seems to suggest that
the test cannot be used without adequate
local standardization norms (e.g., Lynn,
Abdallah, & Al-Shahome, 2008; Lynn,
Backhoff,
&
Contreras,
2005;
Constenbader, & Ngari, 2001; Pind,
Gunnarsdttir,
Jhannesson,
2003;
Pullmann, Allik, Lynn, 2004). Findings from
these
studies
show
that
children,
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa perform
poorly on foreign psychometric tests and
that they would need locally based norms
or a modification of the test for a
meaningful interpretation of their scores
(e.g., Kitsao-Wekulo, Holding, Taylor,
Abubakar & Connolly, 2012).
In the
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The Present Study

The primary objective of the present study
was to standardize the Ravens Colored
Progressive Matrices (RCPM) among the
Ghanaian students between six and twelve
years selected from public and private
schools and from urban and rural
communities. With the knowledge that this
dichotomy is closely associated with
socioeconomic factors, one would expect
that if socioeconomic factors had effect on
test scores it should reflect in differences
between children from public and private
schools and between urban and rural
children. If not, there should be differences
between
these
groups
of
children,
particularly on a test that is not influenced
that is not influenced by external factors.

such as library, teacher-student ratio, and

teaching and learning resources. Better
resourced schools are rated A and less
endowed schools rated D. Stratified
sampling technique was used for selection
of six private schools. Public schools which
are funded by the government are not
rated.
The
selection
in
the
rural
communities focused on public schools.
There are very few private schools in the
rural communities and the resources
available in private schools are not different
from those in publicly funded schools. The
selection of the public schools was based on
convenience. We looked for schools that
had space for testing and could provide a
congenial environment for testing purposes.
Four and six schools were selected from
urban and rural locations respectively.

As indicated, the goal of the current study

was standardize the Ravens Colored
Progressive Matrices on a representative
sample of children in Ghana taking
cognizance of the different socioeconomic
and cultural identities that might affect
performance
on
a
cognitive
test.
Standardization of the RCPM would enable
a more accurate assessment of children for
school placement and for evaluation of
children with cognitive disabilities. There
have been very few standardizations done
in Ghana where currently, there is no
published data on the Progressive Matrices
and any of the major psychological
assessment instruments. This presents a
major
obstacle
in
assessment
and
evaluation since comparison invariably is
made on norms developed from other
populations.

In schools where the class sizes were large

(usually in the urban schools) sample
selection was systematic. For example,
every second or third student listed in the
class register was selected. In the schools
register males separately from females are
listed separately and therefore selection is
done separately for each group. In some
rural schools, all children in particular
classes were selected because of the low
enrolment. There were no children with
cognitive disability. Usually, children who
have any identifiable cognitive challenges
are educated in special schools.
A total of 763 subjects were selected for the
entire study (see Table 1). However, due to
some incompletely tested subjects, the
results of 734 (96%) were used for the
analysis. The ages of the children ranged
from six years 0 months to 11 years and 11
months (based on school records). Children
start school at about six years and
therefore the average age in the first grade
(Class 1) is six and the average in the sixth
grade (Class 6) is about 11.5 to 12 years.

Method
Sample and Participant Selection
To achieve a reasonable representative
sample for the countrys standardization
study, participants for the study were
selected from both private and public
schools and from both urban and rural
areas within the Greater Accra Region
which is the administrative region in which
the capital city is located. The sampling
procedure comprised a multi-stage random
sampling method to obtain urban and rural
sample of 16 schools from the Regional
capital. In Ghana, private schools are rated
A to D based on availability of resources

The population of Ghana is multiethnic and

multicultural. In the education system
however, there is no distinguishing ethnic
or cultural factors that uniquely affect
education. The medium of instruction in all
schools is English. The level of proficiency
in English is however varied with children
in urban and private schools having higher
levels of proficiency. The medium of
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instruction for the study was English for all

children. The instructions were repeated
several times for younger children to ensure
they understood the requirements of the
tasks.

test is 36. It can be administered in a group

or individually.
The test was administered in English
following the directions for individual
administration suggested in the test
manual (Raven, Court, & Raven, 1998). The
RCPM was administered by one assessor
with extensive experience in assessment
procedures.

Table 1: Distribution of participants by

location and sex
Location/Sex
Urban

6-7
71

7-8
78

8-9
79

9-10
62

10-11
102

Total
392

Rural
Boys
Girls
Total

53
45
79
124

49
62
65
127

57
68
68
136

70
62
70
132

113
100
115
215

342
337
397
734

Results
Descriptive Analyses
The total score on the RCPM is based on
aggregate scores for each section (A, Ab,
and B). The mean and standard deviation
by age and sex are presented in Table 2.
The mean scores are computed for the total
sample.
In
subsequent
analyses
computations were done for the aggregated
sample and for urban and rural sample
separately. The overall means showed a
gradual increase in total score from 6 years
to
12
years
which
suggested
a
developmental trend although very small
changes were observed between some age
groups.

Measures
The Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices
(RCPM).The RCPM is a nonverbal and
untimed test just as other versions of the
progressive matrices. There are three
sections, Section A, Ab, and B and each
section has 12 items. Each item contains a
matrix with one missing part. Children are
expected to select the missing part from an
array of six options to make the matrix
complete. The highest possible score on the

Table 2: Descriptive statistics for RCPM by sex, age (years)

Sex

Mean

Standard deviation

SE

Male

337

17.47

5.321

0.290

Female

397

16.41

4.867

0.244

Total

734

16.90

5.104

0.188

to match the ranks used in the 1998

standardization reported in the manual
(Raven, 1989) and to allow for comparison
with the British norms. These are 5th, 10th,
25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, and 95th.

Analyses of Normative Data

For purposes of norming the RCPM
participants were grouped into eleven age
bands between 6.5 and 11.5 years based on
six-month
interval.
The
first
group
comprised of all children between six and
six and half years and the last group
comprised of all children between 11 and
half years and 11 years 11 months. The age
classification is consistent with the age
grouping for the published norms (Raven,
1998). Percentile scores based on the 6month age interval between 6 years and
11.5 years are presented in Table 3. The
norms were obtained by calculating
percentile ranks for each age group in
SPSS. Seven percentile ranks were selected

The percentile ranks calculated from the

raw scores showed that as expected there
was a gradual increase in scores with age.
For example, the average score for a six
year old is 13 (50th percentile rank). This
increases to 15 for a nine-year old and to
19 for children who are 11.5 years old
(Table 3). Similar trends were observed for
scores at higher percentile ranks.
When compared to the UK published
norms, the range of scores for the
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Ghanaian norms is much lower (Raven,

1989) (Table 3). Comparison is made for
scores at the 50th, 75th, and 95th percentile
ranks. High performing children on the
Ghana
data
(95th
percentile)
was

comparable to scores at the 50th percentile

on the British standardization data which is
an indication of superior performance for
British children when compared to
Ghanaian children.

Table 3: RCPM Percentile scores for age groups1 (Ghana and British norms)
Percentiles

10

10

11

11

95

16

17

18

20

21

22

24

25

27

29

31

90

16

16

16

17

17

20

21

22

23

25

28

75

14

15

15

16

16

17

18

20

22

22

24

50

13

13

14

15

15

15

17

17

18

18

19

25

12

12

12

13

13

13

14

14

15

15

16

10

11

11

11

12

12

12

13

13

13

13

14

10

10

10

11

11

12

12

12

12

13

13

33

45

48

53

62

73

69

56

80

87

128

British
norms
95
75
50
1

23
18
15

24
19
16

25
20
17

26
21
18

28
23
20

30
26
22

32
28
24

33
28
24

33
29
26

35
31
28

Smoothed percentile scores

When the data are disaggregated into urban

and rural children a different trend of
results for each group was observed. The
range of scores of children in the urban
group was superior to those in the rural
group (Tables 4 and 5). Children in the
urban group obtained higher scores for
each age level and respective percentile
ranking.
For
example,
scores
that
correspond to 95th percentile rank for 9
year old children in the rural group was
equivalent to 75th percentile among urban
children. Among 11 and 11.5 year old year
children in the rural sample, scores that
correspond to the 95th percentile rank was
comparable to scores at the 50th percentile

among urban children. This indicated that

the gap between the two groups increased
among older children in the study. For
rural children, the change in scores from
six years to nine years was quite
imperceptible. Even then, high functioning
children (95th percentile) do not score
higher than urban children who score at
the 50th percentile.
It was observed that the difference in
performance between the urban children in
this study was similar to and the published
norms especially between 7 and 11 years
showing two to three point difference at
each level.

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Table 4: RCPM Percentile scores for age groups for urban school children 1
Percentiles

10

10

11

11

95

17

18

20

22

23

24

25

28

30

33

34

90

16

17

18

19

20

22

24

27

29

30

32

75

14

15

15

16

17

18

20

23

25

27

28

50

13

14

14

15

15

17

19

20

22

24

25

25

12

12

12

13

13

14

15

16

17

18

21

10

11

11

11

12

12

13

13

14

15

16

18

10

11

11

11

11

12

12

13

14

15

16

22

30

21

34

33

49

36

23

43

40

61

Smoothed percentile scores

Table 5: RCPM Percentile scores for age groups for rural school children 1
Percentiles

10

10

11

11

95

16

17

17

18

19

19

20

21

22

22

23

90

15

16

16

17

18

18

19

20

20

20

21

75

14

15

15

16

16

17

17

18

18

18

19

50

13

13

14

15

15

15

16

16

16

16

17

25

11

11

12

12

13

13

14

14

14

14

15

10

10

10

10

12

12

13

13

13

13

13

13

10

10

10

10

11

11

11

11

12

12

N
1

11

15

27

19

29

24

33

33

37

47

67

Smoothed percentile scores

urban), sex (males and females). The
ANOVA results showed significant main
effects for age group (F(6, 734)=34.60, .001)
and for location (F(1, 734) = 71.53, .001),
but not for sex. We did not find significant
mean differences among children who are
6.5 years and 8.5 year and between 8.5 and
9.5 years. Similarly, there was no difference
between children in the three highest age
groups. We did however find significant
mean differences between 6.5 years and
9.5, 10.5, 11.5, and 12 years. We also
found significant differences between 8.5
years and 10.5, 11.5, and 12 years.

Comparing age groups, location, and sex

To test for age group differences, age groups
were reclassified into seven groups instead
of the 11 used for the percentile ranking.
The classification is based on 12-month
intervals rather than 6 month intervals
(starting from 6 to 6.5 years to 11 years 11
months labeled as 12 years). It was
expected that we were more likely to
observe
cognitive
changes
significant
enough to be detected in statistical
analyses on 12-month interval than on six
months. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was
computed to test for statistical difference
between age groups, location (rural and

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Table 6: Post hoc Analyses for age group on the RCPM (total sample)
Age group
6.5
7.5
8.5
9.5
10.5
11.5
12
Total

Mean
13.12
13.48
15.10
16.16
18.65
19.05
19.87
16.90

SD
1.93
2.49
3.69
3.73
5.85
5.73
5.13
5.10

Age Group
7.5
-0.36

8.5
-1.98
-1.62

9.5
-3.04*
-2.68*
-1.06

10.5
-5.53*
-5.16*
-3.54*
-2.49*

11.5
-5.92*
-5.56*
-3.94*
-2.88*
-.40

12
-6.75*
-6.39*
-4.77*
-3.71*
-1.23
-.83

normative studies in North Africa that the

median IQ based on British norms was 84.
These two studies seem to suggest that the
performance of North African children on
the Ravens progressive matrices is about 1
standard deviation lower than that of the
British children. The findings from the
North African studies are consistent with
previous findings from Kenya and South
Africa (Constenbader & Ngari, 2001;
Rushton & Skuy, 2000). In South Africa,
results from Black South Africans have
been significantly lower than other groups
(see for example, Knoetze, Bass & Steele,
2005; Rushton & Skuy, 2000). Some
researchers have attributed the superior
performance to the vast difference in
educational
and
socio-economic
opportunities that exist in the Western
countries (for example, Wicherts, Dolana,
van der Maas 2010). Constenbader & Ngari
(2001) made the point that comparison
between scores of children from different
socio-cultural
background
is
not
intellectually useful. The variance in
performance within cultures may provide
more useful information about the validity
of the test than comparisons with scores
from other countries.

Discussion
The primary objective of this study was to
collect data for reference norms on the
RCPM among school children for clinical
and educational purposes in Ghana. The
results showed that there were substantial
differences in percentile scores between this
study and scores from the published norms
(Raven, 1989). The biggest differences were
observed among
the
older
children
(especially between 9 and 11 year olds).
Overall, the Ghana sample still lagged
behind by at least 4 points. It appears that
high performing Ghanaian children (95th
percentile) are comparable to performance
on 50th percentile. This is the strongest
indication
for
the
development
of
appropriate reference local norms for
Ghana for the RCPM.
There are three principal issues that are of
interest in this study. First, there was the
revelation that scores obtained from the
Ghana sample were lower at all age levels
when
compared
to
the
British
standardization sample (Table 3). Similar
results have been reported in previous
normative studies in Libya, Kenya, and
South Africa on both the childrens and
adults version of the progressive matrices
(Al-Shahome, 2012; Costenbader & Ngari,
2001; Lynn et al, 2008). Basically, in all
these studies, the average scores from
Africans of North African and Black South
African decent were lower than obtained in
the normative data published in the
manual and obtained from Western
countries such as Britain, Australia, and
North American. Lynn et al (2008) reported
that the average IQ of Libyan children was
86 compared to British IQ of 100. Again, in
a similar study using the Standard
Progressive Matrices for adults in Libya, AlShahomee (2012) found in a review of 21

The second principal issue of interest in

this study was the revelation that the
variance in performance was high resulting
in significant disparity in the scores of
urban and children. Scores of high
functioning children from the rural group
(95th percentile ranking) were comparable to
the 50th percentile ranking among the
urban school sample, especially among
children who are between nine years and
11.5 years. This means that children in
urban locations develop superior abstract
reasoning, a skill required for the
progressive matrices, and maintain this
advantage over children in rural areas. On
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one hand, this is not very surprising

because urban areas, compared to rural
areas have better socio-economic indicators
such as improved educational facilities and
lower prevalence of poverty. In Ghana, most
teachers do not accept appointment into
rural areas because of poor infrastructure
and very high teacher-student ratios
(Akyeampong, Djangmah, Oduro, Seidu, &
Hunt, 2007). School enrolment rates are
higher in urban areas than in rural areas
across all ages. Malnutrition, disease, and
poor quality of life are prevalent in rural
areas than in urban areas. In Ghana,
children in rural areas are more likely to be
stunted because of poor nutritional status.
These factors can affect a childs cognitive
development and likely to reflect poorly on
intelligence test scores (Duncan & BrooksGunn, 2004; Farah, et al. 2006).

Our findings have supported previous

findings in Kenya, South Africa, and Libya
as well. The findings from the Ghanaian
standardization
are
particularly
very
interesting because we directly explored
socioeconomic
differences
among
participants selected from the same genetic
pool. For this reason, any difference in
scores between these groups was going to
be attributed to socioeconomic factors that
are determined not only by income
disparities but by exposure, quality of
education,
opportunities, and general
quality of life. All of these factors vary
significantly between urban and rural
locations in most African countries.
There are two issues that come to the fore.
First, we can conclude quite firmly that
development of childrens fluid ability may
not follow a singular developmental path for
all children and therefore we need to be
careful in our assessment of children from
varied socioeconomic background. As our
data have shown, different norms are
needed to have a more accurate picture of
children with lower socioeconomic statuses.
Secondly, the findings seem to challenge
the widely held notion the progressive
matrices measure an ability that is not
influenced by external factors. Our position
has been supported quite frequently and it
is therefore essential to begin a systematic
examination of the different factors it might
measure the mechanisms involved in the
development of general intelligence.

Finally, we examined sex difference in this

study but did not find it to be significant,
contributing to the controversial yet
interesting debate on sex differences on the
progressive matrices. There is no clear
consensus on this debate (Savage-McGlynn,
2011; Yang, Liu, Wei, Hitchman, Li, Qui, &
Zhang, 2014). Generally, males have scored
higher on Ravens Progressive Matrices
(Lynn & 2004; Lynn & Irwing, 2004). Lynn
and Irwing (2004) for example have
reported that boys have advantage of 3.2 IQ
points on the RCPM. This advantage on the
progressive matrices, they claim increases
in adolescence. Our finding however is
similar to others that have not reported sex
differences (for example, Colom & GarcaLopez, 2002). Other studies have reported
differences favoring females (for example,
Khaleefa & Lynn, 2008). We may need to
explore this further in Ghana with the other
versions of the progressive matrices.

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