[Educational level and intellectual performance]

This study aims at comparing performance among subjects along a series of tests dealing with verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, and reasoning. The subjects were, approximately, the same age. However theirs were different educational levels. The samples drawn were 180 male subjects, approximately 22-years old, distributed into 3 groups according to their education level, i.e. primary school, high school, and college. Three subtests, Verbal Meaning, Word Fluency, and Reasoning (SRA Primary Mental Abilities Test Ages 11 to 17-Form AH) with a high saturation of the above mentioned factors were administered. The results of the simple variation analysis on each subtest scores showed a significant principal effect on education although a strict covariation among scores and the subjects' education level were not detected.