A reliable, self-administered and Correlations with other tests

culturally-fair instrument, which The JCTI correlated highly with the following
assesses one’s nonverbal inductive cognitive ability tests:
reasoning. Test r N
Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) .92 55
The JCTI is a computerized nonverbal intelligence American College Test (ACT) .59 170

test designed with figurative items, which do not Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) .67 150
Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT-3A) .76 63
require acquired knowledge. It measures visual General Ability Measure for Adults (GAMA) .61 198

information processing and abstract reasoning skills. Jouve-Cerebrals Crystallized Educational Scale (JCCES) .62 186
RIAS Odd Item Out Subtest .86 24
Overview The JCTI has been developed so that the number Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT, taken after 2005) .57 224

of items (52) is individually adapted according to WAIS-III FSIQ .63 174

Ages: 15 years and older.
Completion Time: Untimed.
Norms: Age-referenced and Rasch-equated
general population IQ-like reasoning indexes.
WAIS-III PIQ .64 120
one’s performance. A variety of item types makes up WAIS-III Matrix Subtest .88 67
the test: analogy reasoning, construction and serial Note. RIAS = Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scale; WAIS = Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale. All correlations are significant at p < .01. Non-exhaustive list.
reasoning are good examples of domains involved.
JCTI RIX vs. IQ on other nonverbal tests (N=848)
The JCTI is relatively culture-fair and language-
free. In addition, it is untimed and is, therefore, 160
150
suitable for both testing persons without cultural bias 140

Nonverbal IQ
Reliability: Excellent internal consistency 130
(rtt=.95, N=1,946) and precision of 120
and testing examinees whose response speed tends Equipecentile
110
measurement (SEM=2.57). 100
to be slower than others. Z-score
90
80
Validity: Highly correlated with traditional The JCTI yields a Reasoning Index (RIX), an age- 70
intelligence scales and achievement 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160
referenced standard score scaled to a mean of 100,
measures. JCTI RIX
with 15 points per standard deviation.
Author
Xavier Jouve, Ph.D
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