The Validity of a Simplified Version of Baddeley's Three‐minute Reasoning Test

Abstract

THIS paper describes an assessment of the validity and reliability of Baddeley's Three-Minute Reasoning Test following its adaptation by the authors for use with school children. The results indicated that there was a significant correlation between scores on the Three Minute Test and the AH4 (+0 . 70) and that correlations between performance and scores on the AH4 and performance and scores on the reasoning test were of similar size. A test-retest correlation, however, obtained over a seven-day interval, suggested that the reliability of the test was low (0 . 66).

The Three‐minute Reasoning Test a Re‐evaluation

“…In the earlier paper, Hartley and Holt (1971) described an experiment (Experiment Three) which was basically concerned with programmed instruction, but in which the investigators also collected data from the Three-minute Reasoning Test. The results of the experiment are here reported as the first part of Table 1.…”

“…Two performance measures, reading speed and comprehension were made in this experiment, which lasted for about twenty minutes. The students were tested singly, or in groups of twos and threes, The Three-minute Reasoning Test: a Re-evaluation and the instructions (basically the same as those reported by Hartley and Holt, 1971), were tape 1 recorded and played back during each session. The instructions were modified slightly in that the students were requested to circle the number of the item on the test they had reached-when they : heard a click from the tape-recorder, with the instructions 'One minute, Circle', • 'Two minutes, Circle', etc.…”

“…In an earlier paper, Hartley and Holt (1971) described their attempts to develop Baddeley's (1968) Three-minute Reasoning Test in order to make it more suitable for work with school children. Such a test, it was argued, would be of use in situations where there was insufficient time to administer a full-length test of intelligence, such as the AH4 (Heim, 1967), or where the matching of groups had to be based on data which were out of date (e.g., previously obtained 11+ measures).…”

The Persian adaptation of Baddeley’s 3-min grammatical reasoning test

“…For instance, Hartley and Holt (1971) reported a correlation of .70 between the grammatical reasoning test and the AH4, a group test of general intelligence in children. ChamorroPremuzic and Furnham (2008) employed the grammatical reasoning test as a measure of Gf along with the Wonderlic Personnel Test (Wonderlic, 1992) in a study to investigate the roles of personality and intelligence in predicting academic success.…”