This paper concerns results of a Rasch and a factor analysis of Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices items for a sample of 166 gifted children. Of 36 items, 33 had adequate fit to a Rasch model but a three-factor solution provided the most interpretable explanation of item intercorrelations.
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