Adaptation and standardization of the R. Amthauer intelligence test on the Kazakhstan population

Abstract

The article presents the experience of adapting the foreign intelligence test by R. Amthauer on the Kazakh population. The test translated into Kazakh was conducted on a sample of 509 people. Of these, 192 test takers were males, and 317 test takers were females. Pupils of school-lyceum «Binom-Uly Dala», Nur-Sultan city and first year students of humanities of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, aged from 13 to 18 years old, took part in the research. The article contains basic literature on this problem. It highlights the variants of psychodiagnostic tools developed with the adaptation of the test of the structure of intellect. It presents a brief description of R. Amthauer’s structure of intellect. The article presents results of the study of reliability of subtests. The results of the psychometric study are substantiated on a representative sample of respondents in the Kazakh and Russian languages. Cronbach’s alpha (0.945) of R. Amthauer’s intelligence test indicates a high level of internal consistency and reliability of test questions.