For a sample of 180 male children, mostly seven and eight years of age, attending free elementary schools in Nigeria, validity coefficients of a modified matrix-completion instrument entitled Modified Hall's Matrices (MHM) were determined relative to two achievement tests. The two validity coefficients of .81 and .76 were statistically significant considerably beyond the .01 level.
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