Construction of a Figural Analogies Test

This paper presents the psychometric characteristics of a Test of Figural Analogies from the Classical Test Theory perspective. 2x2 figural matrices were constructed. The rules of relation of rotation, displacement, reflection, size distortion, shape distortion, addition and subtraction were implemented to elaborate one rule-based, two rule-based and tree rule-based items. 475 Psychology students from the University of Buenos Aires participated, 96 of whom were males and 379 females. The internal consistency analysis provides a highly satisfactory score (α = .91), all item-test corrected correlations are above .30 and the Test’s unidimensionality was confirmed through the exploratory analysis. Student t test shows a significant between-gender difference in the total score, favouring men (p < .001). Among other issues, conditions for increasing items’ difficulty level are discussed as well as potential limitations