ACHIEVEMENT IN SECONDARY-SCHOOL STUDENTS AND ITS RELATION TO INTELLIGENCE AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

In this article we present the: results obtained in the study of secon dary school students regarding the relationship between intelligence, achievement and thought strategies for problem solving. As in the firs t part of the study, we constructed 3 achievement tests and administer ed them to a sample of aproximatedly 200 students at the end of second ary school in Buenos Aires. We also administered to them the Raven Pro gressive Matrices (Advanced form) and five problem designed by Rimoldi to study strategies of problem sol vi ng. With the results, we obtain ed the intercorrelations and after a factorial analysis we reached the following conclusion: it cannot be said that the school system uses a t its best the intellectual resources of the students.