Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices Plus (SPM Plus)

Get An Accurate Assessment Of Ability To Make Sense Of A Complex Situation

Raven’s SPM Plus is a test of observation skills and clear-thinking ability. It offers insight about someone’s capacity to observe, solve problems, and learn.

The SPM Plus contains more difficult items than the Raven’s SPM. There is no time limit for the SPM Plus.

The SPM Plus score can be used as an indication of a candidate’s potential for success in professional, management and high-level technical positions that require clear thinking, problem identification, holistic situation assessment, and monitoring of tentative solutions for consistency with all available information. The SPM Plus score also can be used for developmental purposes in occupational and educational settings. The nonverbal nature of the SPM Plus minimizes the impact of cultural or language bias.

The SPM Plus is a nonverbal measure of the ability to perceive and think clearly, make meaning out of confusion, and formulate new concepts when faced with novel information. In use for 10 years, SPM Plus was designed for use with mid-level professionals. It is longer and includes more difficult items than the SPM.

Benefits:

• Minimizes the impact of language skills and cultural bias
• Proven history of reliable and accurate information about a candidate’s reasoning capabilities

The SPM Plus assessment produces a single raw score and a percentile rank to indicate the candidate’s mental ability compared to a norm group. The score report also contains a narrative that interprets the results. The nonverbal nature of the SPM Plus minimizes the impact of language skills on performance on the assessment.

The SPM Plus is a mental ability test requiring the solution of problems presented as figures with patterns or sequences. Each problem is presented as a pattern or sequence of diagrammatic puzzles with one piece missing. The task is to complete the pattern or sequence by choosing the correct missing piece from a list of options. The problems become progressively more difficult as the test taker proceeds through the problems in the test.

Hand scorable or online scoring