Individual Differences in Strategy and the Item-Position Effect in Reasoning Ability Measures.

ABSTRACT: Despite the high similarity of reasoning ability items, research indicates that individuals apply different strategies when solving them. The two distinct strategies are response elimination and constructive matching. The latter, frequently showing a positive correlation with reasoning ability, entails the individual systematically investigating the presented problem matrix of an item before scanning the response alternatives. To further understand the sources of individual differences in strategy use during test taking, three different eye-tracking metrics were investigated in participants (N = 210) solving the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM). Relying on the fixed-links modeling approach, bifactor models were fit to the data. The latent model approach revealed, in line

SUBMITTER: von Gugelberg HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12295732 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature