The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) at 61 months’ age (Children in Focus Clinic) using the Initial Consonants Detection Test.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Year of data collection: | 1997-1998 |
| Domain: | Reading ability |
| Measures: | Reading decoding |
| Spelling ability | |
| CHC: | Grw (Reading/Writing) |
| 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; pen and paper |
| Procedure: | Children were presented with 10 lists of three words, and were asked to identify which two of three words began with the same initial consonants. The number of correct responses was recorded. |
| Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | Total number of correct word pairs selected (0 - 10) |
| Item-level variable(s): | Not readily available |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | cf445 - cf449 |
| Descriptives: | N = 983 |
| Range = 0 - 10 | |
| Mean = 8.27 | |
| SD = 2.04 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 67.19, SD = 0.8, Range = 65 - 73 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Byrne, B., & Fielding-Barnsley, R. (1993). Recognition of phoneme invariance by beginning readers. Reading and Writing, 5(3), 315-324. |
| Technical resources: | None |
| Example articles: | Gathercole, S. E., Tiffany, C., Briscoe, J., Thorn, A., & ALSPAC team. (2005). Developmental consequences of poor phonological short-term memory function in childhood: A longitudinal study. Journal of child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46(6), 598-611. |
| Gathercole, S. E., Briscoe, J., Thorn, A., Tiffany, C., & ALSPAC Study Team. (2008). Deficits in verbal long-term memory and learning in children with poor phonological short-term memory skills. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(3), 474-490. |
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’.