MCS - Age 17 - Number Analogies
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 17 sweep using the Number Analogies’ measure.
Note. At the time of writing, fieldwork was completed and data are being processed. Number Analogies is a short version of the Quantitative Reasoning Battery which aims to assess reasoning ability with numbers. The test forms part of Granada Learning (GL)-Assessments’ Cognitive Ability Tests.
| Year of data collection: | 2018 |
| Domain: | Quantitative reasoning |
| Measures: | Basic arithmetic knowledge |
| Reasoning with numbers | |
| The test was the shortened version of the Number Analogies Test in the Quantitative Reasoning Battery of the GL-assessments’ 20-item Cognitive Abilities Test 3 (CAT3), Level H, used with permission of the owners GL-assessments (© David F Lohman, Robert L Thorndike, Elizabeth P Hagen, 2001) | |
| CHC: | Gf (Fluid reasoning) |
| Gq (Quantitative knowledge) | |
| CLOSER Source: | Not currently available in CLOSER Discovery |
| Administration method: | During the Young Person Interview which was a Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI). CM presented with a booklet containing the questions and were provided with pencil and paper if needed to work out answers. |
| Procedure: | CM had 6 minutes to complete 10 questions in the booklet. In each question, CM was presented with 3 pairs of numbers. They had to work out the relationship between numbers and then complete the third pair by selecting the answer from five options. They were given pen and paper if needed. |
| Before the actual test, cohort members were shown practice questions, which could be repeated as many times as needed. If CM member finished the test early, they were asked to review the answers until the time was up. | |
| If CM had a learning disability, serious behavioural problem or couldn’t respond in the required manner, they were not administered the test. | |
| Link to questionnaire: | Not available. |
| Scoring: | The CM’s answer from the five options was noted (e.g. option A, B, C, D or E); there was one correct answer per question.
No further coding was carried out on the data. |
| Item-level variable(s): | GCNAEX00 (example questions) |
| GCNAEG1, GCNAEG2, GCNAEG3 (practice questions) | |
| GCNAAS0A, GCNAAS0B, GCNAAS0C, GCNAAS0D, GCNAAS0E, GCNAAS0F, GCNAAS0G, GCNAAS0H, GCNAAS0I, GCNAAS0J (test questions) | |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | None |
| Descriptives: | N = 9540 |
| Age of participants (years): | Mean = 17.16, SD = 0.42, Range = 16.1 – 18.3 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Documentation for the CAT3 is not available, but documentation is available for CAT4: GL Assessment. (n.d.). Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) Support. (opens in new tab) |
| Technical resources: | Fitzsimons, E., Haselden, L., Smith, K., Gilbert, E., Calderwood, L., Agalioti-Sgompou, V., Veeravalli, S., Silverwood, R., Ploubidis, G. (2020) Millennium Cohort Study Age 17 Sweep (MCS7): User Guide. London: UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. (opens in new tab) |
| Ipsos MORI. (2019) Millennium Cohort Study Seventh Sweep (MCS7) Technical Report. London: Ipsos MORI. (opens in new tab) | |
| Documentation for the CAT3 is not available, but documentation is available for CAT4: GL Assessment. (n.d.). Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4): Technical Report – UK & Ireland Edition. (opens in new tab) | |
| Example articles: | Adjei, N. K. et al. (2024). Impact of Parental Mental Health and Poverty on the Health of the Next Generation: A Multi-Trajectory Analysis Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 74, Issue 1, pages 60 – 70. (opens in new tab) |
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 CLOSER Discovery page.