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Raven. J.,	(2009).	Crisis, What Crisis?	Unpublished (Not final version - still contains editorial comments)
Raven. J.,	(2009).	Conceptualising and Mapping Social Forces	Unpublished
Raven. J.,	(2009).	Advancing and Defeating the PEGS Agenda Socio-Cybernetics and Murray Bookchin	Unpublished
Raven. J.,	(2009).	Response to Billington Working with Children: Psychologists at the boundaries of knowledge and experience	The Psychology of Education Review 33 No. 2, September 2009, 15 - 18.
Raven. J.,	(2009).	Psychologists and Sustainability	Unpublished
Raven. J.,	(2009).	How are we to understand and map the network of social forces behind the autopoietic processes which appear to be heading our species toward extinction, carrying the planet as we know it with us – and how are we to design a more effective socio-cybernetic system for societal management?	Unpublished
Raven, J.,	(2009).,	The Emergence of Hierarchy, Domination and Centralisation: Reflections on the Work of Murray Bookchin	Revised version of that published in Journal for Perspectives of Economic, Political, and Social Integration, 14(1-2) 11-75.	Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Lublin, Poland.
Raven. J.,	(2008).	Book Review: Hattie, John A.C. (2009). VISIBLE LEARNING: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. London, England, Routledge: Taylor & Francis. Pp378	Unpublished
Court . J H.,	(2008).	From normal curve to slippery slope	Testing International, 19, 12-13.
Raven. J.,	(2008).	Some comments prompted by John Seddon’s book “Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: the failure of the reform regime – and a manifesto for a better way”	Unpublished
Raven. J.,	(2008).	Fundamental Problems in Psychometrics	Testing International, 19, 16-17.
Raven, J.,	(2008).	Creating a Learning Society: What have organisational Psychologists to offer?,
Raven, J.,	(2008).,	Normative Data from the Standardisation of Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices in Kuwait in an International Context	Previously published verion in 2005 Social Behaviour and Personality: An International Journal, 34(2) 169-180.	WebPsychEmpiricist. http://www.wpe.info/papers_table.html
Fugard, A. & Raven, J.,	(2008).,	What’s Wrong with Factor-Analysing Tests Conforming to the Requirements of Item Response Theory?	Unpublished
Raven, J., Raven .J. (eds)	(2008).	Uses and Abuses of Intelligence: Studies Advancing Spearman and Raven's Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics.		Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press; Edinburgh, Scotland: Competency Motivation Project; Budapest, Hungary: EDGE 2000; Cluj Napoca, Romania: Romanian Psychological Testing Services SRL.
		Chapters
		PART I:	Introduction to the Raven Progressive Matrices Tests: Conceptual Basis, Measurement Model, and a Few Findings
		Chapter 1	General Introduction and Overview: The Raven Progressive Matrices Tests: Their Theoretical Basis and Measurement Model. - John Raven
		Chapter 2	Linking Psychometric and Cognitive-Developmental Frameworks for Thinking About Intellectual Functioning. - Irene Styles
		PART II:	Practical Measurement Issues: Lessons From 75 Years’ Work With Item Response Theory: Benefi ts, Problems, and Potential Solutions.
		Chapter 3	The Need for, and Development of, the SPM Plus. - John Raven
		Chapter 4	The Romanian Standardisation of the SPM Plus: Sample and General Results. - Anca Dobrean, John Raven, Mircea Comsa, Camelia Rusu and Robert Balazsi
		Chapter 5	Using the Romanian Data to Replicate the IRT-Based Item Analysis of the SPM+: Striking Achievements, Pitfalls, and Lessons. - John Raven, Joerg Prieler and Michael Benesch
		Chapter 6	Lessons Learned while Developing a Romanian Version of the Mill Hill Vocabulary Test. - John Raven
		Chapter 7	Problems in the Measurement of Change (With Particular Reference to Individual Change [Gain] Scores) and Their Potential Solution Using IRT. - Joerg Prieler and John Raven
		PART III:	Stability and Change in RPM Norms Across Time and Culture
		Chapter 8	Change and Stability in RPM Scores Over Culture and Time: The Story at the Turn of the Century. - John Raven
		Chapter 9	Does the “Flynn Effect” Invalidate the Interpretation Placed on Most of the Data Previously Believed to Show a Decline in Intellectual Abilities with Age? - Francis Van Dam and John Raven
		Chapter 10	The Standardisation of all the Main Raven Progressive Matrices Tests in Slovenia. - Dusica Boben
		Chapter 11	The Lithuanian Standardisation of the Coloured Progressive Matrices in an International Context. - Gražina Gintilienė, Dovilė Butkienė and John Raven
		Chapter 12	The Standard Progressive Matrices in Turkey. - N. Ekrem Duzen, Nail Sahin, John Raven and C. Jean Raven
		Chapter 13	Kuwaiti norms for the Classic SPM in an International Context - Ahmed Abdel-Khalek and John Raven
		Chapter 14	The Coloured Progressive Matrices in South Africa. - Adien Linstrom, John Raven and Jean Raven in collaboration with Jopie van Rooyen and Partners
		Chapter 15	Raven’s Standard and Advanced Progressive Matrices among Adults in South Africa. - Nicola Taylor
		Chapter 16	Standard Progressive Matrices Norms for Indian Tribal Areas. - C. G. Deshpande and V. Patwardhan
		Chapter 17	The Standard Progressive Matrices in Pakistan - Riaz Ahmad, Sarwat J. Khanam and Zaeema Riaz
		PART IV	Outstanding Conceptual and Measurement Issues
		Chapter 18	Asian Americans: Achievement Well Beyond IQ - Jim Flynn
		Chapter 19	Intelligence, Engineered Invisibility, and the Destruction of Life on Earth. - John Raven
		Chapter 20	Psychometrics, Cognitive Ability, and Occupational Performance. - John Raven
		PART V:	Emerging Applications
		Chapter 21	Predicting Driver Behaviour. - Joerg Prieler
		Chapter 22	Detection of Malingering on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices: A Cross-Validation - R. Kim McKinzey, Marvin H. Podd, Mary Ann Krehbiel and John Raven
		Chapter 23	Detection of Children’s Malingering on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices. - R. Kim McKinzey, Joerg Prieler and John Raven
		PART VI:	Some Outstanding Ethical Issues
		Chapter 24	Too Dumb to Die: Mental Retardation Meets the Death Penalty. - R. Kim McKinzey
		Chapter 25	Excerpts from How to Defend Humane Ideals. - Jim Flynn
		Chapter 26	Social Cage (Socio-Economic Status and Intelligence in Hungary). - Balazs Klein, Sandor Klein, Kalman Joubert and Gyula Gyenis
Raven, J.	(2007).	100 unethical acts which we commit every day,	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2007).	Some mysteries in the short-term evolution of individual and collective intelligence.	In G. de Zeeuw, M. Vahl, & E. Mennuti (Eds.), Problems of Individual Emergence. Special Issue of Systemica: Journal of the Dutch Systems Group 14, nos. 1-6 373-376 No PDF of the published version is available but a PDF of the draft version of the paper can be obtained by clicking on the pdf button to the right	Lincoln Research Centre, Globe Farm, Lincoln, LN1 2SQ, UK.		Draft version
Raven, J.	(2007).	Some problems of individual emergence.	In G. de Zeeuw, M. Vahl, & E. Mennuti, (Eds.), Problems of Individual Emergence. Special Issue of Systemica: Journal of the Dutch Systems Group 14, nos. 1-6 377- 396 No PDF of the published version is available but a PDF of the draft version of the paper can be obtained by clicking on the pdf button to the right	Lincoln Research Centre, Globe Farm, Lincoln, LN1 2SQ, UK.		Draft version Diagram
Raven, J.	(2007).	Creating a Future for Homo Sapiens: Transforming the Educational System and Society	Unpublished
Schivone, G. M.	(2007).	The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Gabriel Matthew Schivone, June 25, 2007	Published in ZNet, 16 August 2007
Raven, J.	(2006).	A 90 minute webcast of a talk Dr. Raven gave on "The Flynn Effect" at the University of Minnesota in December 2006.	Video
Raven, J., Raven, J.C. & Court, J.H.		Manual for Raven's Progressive Matrices and Mill Hill Vocabulary Scales.		San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.
Raven, J.	(2006).	Contributions to Psychological and Psychometric Theory arising from studies with Raven's Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary Scales	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2006).	Comment - Papierno and Ceci Miss the Point	Unpublished Edited version published as Raven, J. (2005). More Problems with Gap Closing Philosophy and Research. American Psychologist 60, 1035-1043.
Raven, J.	(2006).	The Crisis in Urban Education: Resisting Neoliberal Policies and Forging Democratic Possibilities	Educational Review, May 2006
Raven, J.	(2006).	Designing a Learning Society.	Proceedings of Deming Learning Network conference on Society in Sync, Aberdeen, February 2006.
Raven, J.	(2006).	Psychologists and the Government Consultation on “Extreme Pornographic Material”	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2006).	Toward a Sustainable Society: Next Steps.	Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Linking Systems Thinking, Innovation, Quality, Entrepreneurship and Environment. (STIQE) 2006.	Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, Slovenia
Marks, N., Simms, A., Thompson, S., & Abdallah, S.	(2006).	The (Un)happy Planet Index: An Index of Human Well-being and Environmental Impact.	London: New Economics Foundation. Downloadable from www.neweconomics.org and www.happyplanetindex.org
Raven, J.	(2006).	Undesirable Human Traits .	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2005).	Ability, Science, and Ethics	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2005).	Derailing the statutory regulation train.	The Psychologist, 18, 338.
Raven, J.	(2005).	Lethal intelligence.	The Psychologist, 18, 68.
Raven, J.	(2005).	Liberal Education and Liberalism in Modern Society,	The Good Society, 14(3), 29-37.	Pennsylvania State University.
Raven, J.	(2005).	More Problems with Gap Closing Philosophy and Research.	American Psychologist 60, 1035-1043.
Raven, J.	(2003).	On the Need to Record Contributions to the Continued Development of Psychology (CDP) Instead of Continued Professional Development (CPD)	Unpublished Published version Raven, J.  (2003)., CPD - What should we be developing?  The Psychologist, 16(7), 360-362.
Rees, W. E.	(2002).	Globalization and Sustainability: Conflict or Convergence?	Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 22 (4), 249-268.	SAGE Publications.
Raven, J.	(2002).	Implications of the Case Studies of Creative People for Psychometrics,	American Psychologist, 57 (5). 374-375.
Raven, J.	(8 Oct 1998 modified 4 Nov 2002).	Reflections on the Birmingham TOES or We have a public management problem not an economic problem	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2002).	Spearman's Raven Legacy,	Testing International, 12 (2), 7-10.
Raven, J. & Stephenson, J. (Eds.).	(2001).	Competence in the Learning Society.	Book	Peter Lang.
		Selected Chapters
		Chapter 1	Learning Societies, Learning Organisations, and Learning: Their Implications For Competence, Its Development, and Its Assessment
		Chapter 6	The pernicious effects of incompetence on society, education, and assessment
		Chapter 9	The McBer Competency Framework
		Chapter 12	Issues raised by the studies of competence
		Chapter 15	The McClelland/McBer Competency Models
		Chapter 17	The Conceptualisation of Competence
		Chapter 18	Facilitating the Development of Competence
		Chapter 23	Some Barriers to the Introduction of Competency-Based Education
		Chapter 28	The Assessment of Competence
Raven, J. &  Navrotsky, V.	(2001).	The Development and Use of maps of Socio-Cybernetic Systems to Improve Educational and Social Policy, with particular reference to sustainability,	Journal of Mental Changes, 7 (1-2) , 19-60.		.	Diagrams: 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, Figure XXX Boxes 1-6, 8 & 9
Raven, J.	(2001).	Poisonous Paradigms: Unethical Procedures and Injunctions at the Heart of Psychology	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(2001).	Psychologists and Sustainability.	The American Psychologist. 56, 455-457.
Raven, J.	(2000).	Beyond the 3Rs: Achieving and evaluating the wider goals of education.,	A slightly edited version of this paper was published in:S. Gerjolj, J. Kolenc, B. Novak, & M. Novak, Clovek in Kurikul (pp. 33-57). Druzina, Ljubljana: Zbornik Predavanj.
Raven, J.	(2000).	Ethical Dilemmas	Updated version originally published in The Psychologist, 13(8), 404–406
Raven, J.	(2000).	The Raven’s Progressive Matrices: Change and stability over culture and time.	Cognitive Psychology, 41, 1-48.	Elsevier.
Raven, J.	(2000).	Rethinking democracy.	The Good Society (Journal of the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society [PEGS]), 9(3), 31–37.
Raven, J.	(2000).	Psychometrics, cognitive ability, and occupational performance,	Review of Psychology, 7 (1-2), 51-74.
Raven, J.	(1998).	The Conceptualisation of Competence	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(1998).	"Learning Societies", "Learning Organisations", and "Learning" - and their implications for concepts of competence, its development, and its assessment	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(1998).	Professional Competence: Its Nature, Development, and Assessment Present Perspectives and Future Issues	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(1998).	Psychology, Economics, and the Public Welfare	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(1997).	Can we discuss policy if nothing is what it seems to be?	Journal for Mental Changes, III(1) 85-103.
Raven, J.	(1997).	Educational research, ethics and the BPS. Starter paper and peer reviews by P. Mortimore, J. Demetre, R. Stainthope, Y. Reynolds and G. Lindsay.	Education Section Review, 21(2), 3-26.
Raven, J.	(1997).	J. C. Raven and Contemporary Psychology,	The Bulletin - Newsletter of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, 12-21.
Raven, J.	(1997).	Open Dialogue: Education, Educational Research, Ethics and the BPS,	BPS Education Section Review, 21 (2), 3-26.
Court, J.H.	(1995).	A Researcher's Bibliography for Raven's Progressive Matrices and Mill Hill Vocabulary Scales.	CD	Available on CD from Harcourt Assessment, TX.
Raven, J	(1995).	Managing society: The past belonged to economists: The future belongs to psychologists.	Journal of Mental Changes, 1(2), 7¬46.
Raven, J.	(1995).	The New Wealth of Nations: A New Enquiry into the Nature and Origins of the Wealth of Nations and the Societal Learning Arrangements Required for a Sustainable Society.	Book	US: Royal Fireworks Press UK: Bloomfield Books.
		Selected Chapters
		Chapter 1	Introduction and Overview,
		Chapter 2	The State of the World: The Environment, Population, International Debt and Interest,Status of the Social Fabric,
		Chapter 3	Preliminary Observations on the Nature of Modern Societies, Wealth, and Wealth Creation,
		Chapter 4	Some Observations On Money,
		Chapter 5	Some Observations On Prices,
		Chapter 6	The Marketplace and Classic Economic Indicators,
		Chapter 7	Manufacturing, Wealth, Money, and Management,
		Chapter 8	Our Misplaced Faith In Market Processes,
		Chapter 9	Privatisation,
		Chapter 10	The Covert Reasons For Privatisation,
		Chapter 11	Has There Been A Conspiracy?,
		Chapter 16	Adequacy Of Democracy,
		Chapter 17	The Critique Summarised and an Introduction to, and Overview of, Part IV: The Way Forward,
		Chapter 19	Running Modern Society Effectively: An Overview,
		Chapter 20	Using Systems Diagrams to Guide Social Action.
		Chapter 21	Creating a Pervasive Climate of Innovation,
		Chapter 22	Public Participation and Network Management,
		Chapter 23	A New Understanding of Democracy,
		Chapter 24	Arrangements for Policy Evaluation and Improvement,
		Notes
		References
Raven, J.	(1995).	The Universities, the development of competence and public policy,	Capability Volume, 1 (3), 3-6
Raven, J. and Sime, J.	(1994).	The Computerised Edinburgh Questionnaires.		Edinburgh: Competency Motivation Project, 30 Great King Street., Edinburgh EH3 6QH.
Raven, J.	(1994).	School Improvement Kit: Pilot Version.		Edinburgh: Competency Motivation Project, 30 Great King Street., Edinburgh EH3 6QH.
Raven, J.	(1994).	Managing Education for Effective Schooling: The Most Important Problem is to Come to Terms with Values.	Book	Trillium Press.	.
		Selected Chapters
		Chapter 1	Overview
		Chapter 7	Why do schools neglect their main goals?
		Chapter 8	The internal organisation of the system
		Chapter 9	The Role And Function Of Public Sector Bureaucracy And Its Interface With The Public
		Chapter 10	The organisation and facilitation of research
		Chapter 11	The way forward
		References
Raven, J.	(1994).	Some limitations of the standards.	Evaluation and Program Planning, 7, 363-370.
Raven, J.	(1993).	Managing Society: The Past Belonged To Economists: The Future Belongs To Psychologists,	Protection of the Environment, 521-563.	Fundacja Srodkowoeuropejskie Centrum Ekonomii Dzialania Spolecznego, Lublin, POLOGNE.	.
Raven, J.	(1992).	A model of competence, motivation, and behavior and a paradigm for assessment.	In H. Berlak, F.M. Newmann, E. Adams, D.A. Archbald, T. Burgess, J. Raven and T.A. Romberg, Toward a New Science of Educational Testing and Assessment.	Albany NY: SUNY Press.
Raven, J.	(1992).	Democracy Bureaucracy and the Psychologist	Unpublished
Raven, J.	(1992).	The Crisis in Education,	Anthropological Notebooks (2000), VI (1), 20-38,	Slovene Anthropological Society.	.
Raven, J.	(1991).	The Tragic Illusion: Educational Testing.	Book	Trillium Press.
Raven, J.	(1991).	The Wider Goals of Education: Beyond the 3 R's,	The Educational Forum, 55 (4), 343-363.
Raven, J.	(1990).	Images of Organizations - Book review,	Higher Education Review, 22, 82-85.
Raven, J.	(1990).	The barriers to achieving the wider goals of general education	British Educational Research Journal, 16(3), 273-296.
Raven, J.	(1989).	Equity in diversity: The problems posed by values - and their resolution. In F. Macleod (Ed.),	Families and Schools: Issues in Accountability and Parent Power,	Falmer Press.
Raven, J.	(1989).	Democracy, bureaucracy and the psychologist.	The Psychologist, 2(11), November, 458-466.	The British Psychological Society
Raven, J.	(1989).	Parents, Education and Schooling,	British Journal of Educational Psychology. Monograph Series No.4 Early Childhood Education, Edited by Charles W. Desforges, 47-67.	Scottish Academic Press.
Raven, J.	(1989).	Questionable Assumptions In Test Construction,	Bulletin de la Comission Internationale des Tests, 28 & 29, 67-69.
Raven, J.	(1988).	Choice in a modern economy: New concepts of democracy and bureaucracy. In S. Maital (Ed.),	Applied Behavioural Economics, Vol. II ,	Wheatsheaf.
Raven, J.	(1988).	A Critique of Sternberg's and Gardner's Concept of Multiple Intelligences
Raven, J.	(1988).	Developing the talents and competencies of all our children.	Gifted International, 5, 8-40.
Raven, J.	(1988).	Toward measures of high-level competencies: A re-examination of McClelland's distinction between needs and values.	Human Relations, 41, 281-294.	The Tavistock Institute.	.
Flynn, J.R.	(1987).	Massive IQ gains in 14 nations: What IQ tests really measure.	Psychological Bulletin, 101, 171-191.	American Psychological Association.	.
Raven, J.	(1987).	The Role of the Psychologist in the Modern Economy,	Proceedings of the BPS/ESRC Conference on The Future Psychological Sciences, 119-140.
Raven, J.	(1987).	Values, diversity and cognitive development.	Teachers’ College Record, 89, 21-38.	Teachers' College Columbia University.
Raven, J., Johnstone, J. & Varley, T.	(1985).	Opening the Primary Classroom	Book	UK: Scottish Council for Research in Education. North Canada: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Raven, J.	(1984).	Competence in Modern Society: Its Identification, Development and Release	Book	Trillium Press.
Raven, J. and Varley, T.	(1984).	Some classrooms and their effects: A study of the feasibility of measuring some of the broader outcomes of education.	Collected Original Resources in Education, 8(1), F4 G6.
Raven, J.	(1983).	The relationship between educational institutions and society with particular reference to the role of assessment.	International Review of Applied Psychology, 42, 249-274.
Raven, J.	(1982).	Educational Home Visiting and the growth of competence and confidence in adults and children.	Curriculum Inquiry, 12, 87-105.	Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Raven, J.	(1981).	The Most Important Problem in Education is to Come to Terms with Values,	Oxford Review of Education, 7 (3), 253-272.		Available via JSTOR on-line journal archive
Raven, J.	(1980).	Parents, Teachers and Children.	Book	UK: Scottish Council for Research in Education. Canada: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Raven, J.	(1980).	Teetering on the brink of a totalitarian society?	New Universities Quarterly, 34, 370-382.
Raven, J.	(1977).	Education, Values and Society: The Objectives of Education and the Nature and Development of Competence.	Book	Oxford Psychologists Press. Out of print but available from the author.
Raven, J.	(1977).	On the components of competence and their development in education.	Teachers' College Record, 78, 457-475.	Teachers' College Columbia University
Raven, J.	(1977).	School Rejection and its Amelioration,	Educational Research, 20 (1), 3-9.	.	.
Raven, J. and Whelan, C.T.	(1976).	Irish adults' perceptions of their civic institutions. In J. Raven, C.T. Whelan, P.A. Pfretzschner and D.M. Borock,	Political Culture in Ireland.	Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.
Spearman, C.	(1924).	Quotation from: "Some Issues in the Theory of g (Including the Law of Diminishing Returns)."	Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Section J - Psychology, 174-181.	British Association for the Advancement of Science, Southampton, England