The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) at 49 months’ age (Children in Focus Clinic) using the Comprehension measure from the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence Revised (WPPSI-RUK).
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Year of data collection: | 1996-1997 |
| Domain | Verbal comprehension |
| Measures: | Verbal comprehension |
| Verbal reasoning | |
| Verbal expression | |
| CHC: | Gc (Crystallised intelligence) |
| CLOSER Source: | Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Early Years (13 months to 4 years 11 months) (opens in a new tab) |
| Administration method: | Trained interviewer; clinical setting; responds orally |
| Procedure: | The child was asked a series of questions based on his or her understanding of general concepts, e.g. "Why do people brush their teeth?", "Why can birds fly, but cats can't?". Interviewers could repeat questions if the child did not understand. Responses were scored on a 0 - 2 metric based on the content of their response. If the child spontaneously improved their answer, this was accepted. |
| Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | Standardised score (M = 10, SD = 3) |
| Item-level variable(s): | Not readily available |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | cf807 Explore this variable in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Children in Focus 4Mth-61Mth Clinics Dataset (opens in a new tab) |
| Descriptives: | Raw score |
| N = 1,006 | |
| Range = 4 - 19 | |
| Mean = 10.08 | |
| SD = 2.70 | |
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| Age of participants (weeks): | Mean = 212.39 weeks, SD = 1.63, Range = 207-221 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | ALSPAC – Age 8.5 – WISC-III Comprehension |
| Source: | Wechsler, D. (1989). Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised. WPPSI-R. Psychological Corporation. |
| Technical resources: | Kaufman, A. S., & Lichtenberger, E. O. (2000). Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Assessment. John Wiley & Sons Inc. |
| Example articles: | 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. |
| Taylor, C. M., Kordas, K., Golding, J., & Emond, A. M. (2017). Data relating to prenatal lead exposure and child IQ at 4 and 8 years old in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Neurotoxicology, 62, 224-230. |
For the named item in the table above, a link is provided to the corresponding CLOSER Discovery content.
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’.