INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE CHILDRENS-MOTIVATION-ANALYSIS-TEST - NORMATIVE DATA

The present study investigated normalised stens for 380 Xhosa children in standard 5 using the Children's Motivation Analysis Test (CMAT). T he CMAT was administered to separate groups of girl and boys zipper el ementary school children, representing the first such normative data a vailable for this instrument in South Africa ica. The gender differenc es in the means and standard deviations for the main CMAT subscales fo r each group are investigated and reported. It is suggested that the n orms presented are also recommended for use with other African samples , as previous comparative work with CMAT norms has shown that they are not significantly influenced by Zimbabwean/South African cultural dif ferences.