The scores of 537 fourteen-year-old students in Nigeria on the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM) were correlated with their scores on achievement test to provide an estimate of the predictive validity of the EPM. The results showed that the RPM exhibited low validity for predicting school achievement.
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