Mental Ability of Deaf and Non-Deaf Students on the Raven's Progressive Matrices of Mental Abilities: A Comparative Study

Alia M  Al-Oweidi; Fajer Ibrahim  Qutishat

doi:10.36941/jesr-2022-0082

Authors

Alia M Al-Oweidi Prof, Special Education Department, The World Islamic Sciences and Education University, Amman, Jordan
Fajer Ibrahim Qutishat Assistant Prof, Special Education Department, The World Islamic Sciences and Education University, Amman, Jordan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2022-0082

Keywords:

deaf, Raven's Progressive Matrices, mental ability

Abstract

The study aimed to compare the mental ability performance of deaf and non-deaf students on the Raven Progressive Matrices test of mental ability and its relationship to the variables of gender and age group. The study sample consisted of (307); (188) non-deaf and (119) deaf, and to achieve the goal of the study, the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test was used to measure mental ability, which is standardized on the Jordanian environment. The results indicated that the averages were in favor of the non-deaf, as the average performance of the deaf was (19.67), while the non-deaf children was (28, 91), and the result related to the gender variable indicated that there was no difference between deaf males and females on the test, While there is a significant difference between non-deaf males and females in favor of males. The results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the deaf and non-deaf for the age group variable in favor of the older age group.

Received: 4 January 2022 / Accepted: 29 March 2022 / Published: 5 May 2022