The impact of the position effect on the factorial structure of the Culture Fair Test (CFT)

Troche, Stefan J.; Wagner, Felicitas. L.; Schweizer, Karl; Rammsayer, Thomas H. (23 July 2015). The impact of the position effect on the factorial structure of the Culture Fair Test (CFT) (Unpublished). In: 13th European Conference on Psychological Assessment. Zürich. 22.07.-25.07.2015.

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The Culture Fair Test (CFT) is a psychometric test of fluid intelligence consisting of four subtests; Series, Classification, Matrices, and Topographies. The four subtests are only moderately intercorrelated, doubting the notion that they assess the same construct (i.e., fluid intelligence). As an explanation of these low correlations, we investigated the position effect. This effect is assumed to reflect implicit learning during testing. By applying fixed-links modeling to analyze the CFT data of 206 participants, we identified position effects as latent variables in the subtests; Classification, Matrices, and Topographies. These position effects were disentangled from a second set of latent variables representing fluid intelligence inherent in the four subtests. After this separation of position effect and basic fluid intelligence, the latent variables representing basic fluid intelligence in the subtests Series, Matrices, and Topographies could be combined to one common latent variable which was highly correlated with fluid intelligence derived from the subtest Classification (r=.72). Correlations between the three latent variables representing the position effects in the Classification, Matrices, and Topographies subtests ranged from r=.38 to r=.59. The results indicate that all four CFT subtests measure the same construct (i.e., fluid intelligence) but that the position effect confounds the factorial structure

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology
UniBE Contributor:	Troche, Stefan, Wagner, Felicitas Lony, Rammsayer, Thomas
Subjects:	100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education
Language:	English
Submitter:	Karin Dubler
Date Deposited:	19 May 2016 10:54
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:54
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/79901