Item responses of Spanish- and English-speaking children on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices were submitted to principal components analyses and varimax rotations. Four factors were obtained which corresponded to readily identifiable problem types. The finding that three of the four factors were comparable for the two groups of subjects indicated the factorial invariance of the Raven test with children from different cultural backgrounds.
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