The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 12.5 sweep (TeenFocus 1) using a measure of Phonological Awareness (Spoonerisms).
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Year of data collection: | 2004 |
| Domain: | Phonological processing |
| Measures: | Metaphonological skill (phonological awareness) |
| CHC: | Unknown |
| CLOSER Source: | Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Childhood (5 years to 12 years 11 months) (opens in a new tab) |
| Administration method: | Trained interviewer; clinical setting; oral answers |
| Procedure: | The child was played a series of two words (e.g. Paddington Bear) and was asked to repeat them, with the first sounds swapped around (e.g. Baddington Pear). Used as a screener for dyslexia. |
| Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | Response time (seconds) and number of errors are recorded |
| Item-level variable(s): | Not readily available |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | ff4270 – ff8923 Explore these variables in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Teen Focus 1/Teen Focus 1 FastTrack Clinic Dataset (opens in a new tab) |
| Descriptives: | Time in seconds to complete first trial |
| N = 1,998 | |
| Range = 0 - 35 | |
| Mean = 2.71 | |
| SD = 2.92 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean (months) = 153.73, SD = 2.77, Range = 136 - 171 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Similar to the spoonerism test from the Phonological Assessment Battery (PhAB; Gallagher, A., & Frederickson, N. (1995). The Phonological Assessment Battery (PhAB): An initial assessment of its theoretical and practical utility. Educational and Child Psychology, 12(1), 53-67. |
| Technical resources: | None |
| Example articles: | Unknown |
For the named items in the table above, links are provided to their corresponding content on CLOSER Discovery. Where a variable range is provided, full variable lists can be accessed through the ‘Variable Groups’ tab on the linked Discovery page.
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measures in ALSPAC
- Overview of childhood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.