The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 8.5 sweep (Focus@8) using a Short Term Memory (Non-word Repetition) measure.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs, are outlined in the table below.
| Years of data collection: | 1999-2001 |
| Domain: | Verbal repetition |
| Measures: | Phonetic Coding |
| CHC: | Gsm (Short term memory) |
| Ga (Auditory processing) | |
| 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 presented with 12 nonsense words, four each containing 3, 4 and 5 syllables. The words were played on a cassette recorder, and the child was asked to repeat each word after it was played. |
| Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | The number of correctly repeated items was scored for each child (0 - 12). |
| Item-level variable(s): | f8sl080-f8sl105 |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | f8sl105 Explore these variables in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Focus at 8 Clinic Dataset (opens in a new tab) |
| Descriptives: | Raw score |
| N = 7,361 | |
| Range = 0 - 12 | |
| Mean = 7.23 | |
| SD = 2.51 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 103.82 months, SD = 3.92, Range = 89 - 127 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | ALSPAC – Age 61 months – Short-Term Memory (Non-word Repetition) |
| Source: | Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1996). The children's test of nonword repetition. Pearson. |
| Technical resources: | None |
| 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. |
| Kormos, J., & Sáfár, A. (2008). Phonological short-term memory, working memory and foreign language performance in intensive language learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11(2), 261-271. |
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’.