The Group Embedded Figures Test was administered to 96 undergraduate business administration students at a Canadian university. Analysis suggests that the learning effect may not be independent of the order in which the two main parts of the test are completed and any learning effect may be confounded by the non-comparable difficulty of the two main parts.
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