The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 5 sweep using the Complete a Profile Test.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Year of data collection: | 1975 |
| Domain: | Spatial development |
| Measures: | Spatial-constructive development (Kalverboer, 1972) |
| CHC: | Gv (Visual processing) |
| CLOSER Source: | Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: BCS70 Age 5 Survey (1975) (opens in a new tab) |
| Administrative method: | Health visitor at home; pen and paper |
| Procedure: | The child was asked to complete an outline picture of a human face in profile by filling in features (eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, hair etc.). |
| Link to questionnaire: | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BCS70_age5_test_booklet.pdf (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | The scoring was based on the number and position of features included on the human face in profile. The scoring details are outlined in Figure 7 in Parsons (2014) and Golding (1975, pp. 268-273) in the 'Technical resources' below. The maximum score available was 16. |
| Item-level variable(s): | f090 - f098 |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | f118 |
| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 61.78, SD = 1.33, Range = 60 - 77 |
| Descriptives: | Raw score |
| N = 12,451 | |
| Range = 0 - 16 | |
| Mean = 6.02 | |
| SD = 3.19 | |
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| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Kalverboer, A.F. (1972). A Profile Test for the Spatial-Constructive Development. Lisse: Switz & Zeitlinger. |
| Technical resources: | Parsons, S. (2014). Childhood cognition in the 1970 British Cohort Study, CLS Working Paper. London: Centre for Longitudinal Studies. (Link opens in a new tab). |
| Golding, J. (1975). The 1970 Birth Cohort 5-Year Follow-up: Guide to the Dataset. Bristol: University of Bristol Institute of Child Health. | |
| Example articles: | Feinstein, L. (2003). Inequality in the early cognitive development of British children in the 1970 cohort. Economica, 70(277), 73-97. |
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measure in BCS70
- 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’.