The Factorial Psychometric Characters of Raven Progressive Matrices Test on a Sample of University of Technology and Applied Sciences Students in the Sultanate of Oman

The study aims to identify the factorial psychometric properties of the Raven Normal Progressive Matrices Test on a sample of students of colleges of applied sciences in the Sultanate of Oman. To achieve the objectives of the study, the ordinary "Raven" matrix is used, and it was applied to a sample of (502) people of the ages (18 - 22) years: 156 males and 346 females. The study reached to verify the saturation of the test vocabulary on five factors, and the values of the latent roots of the five factors ranged between (14.1-1.5), while the percentage of variance explained by the five factors was (34.2), while the values of vocabulary saturations on the five factors ranged between (0.30 - 0.82). The study reached the values of statistically significant indicators that proved the quality of the test and its psychometric properties.