NSHD – Age 11 – Vocabulary
The MRC National Survey of Health of Development (NSHD) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 11 sweep using the Vocabulary measure.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
In this section
| Year of data collection: | 1957 | |
| Domain | Verbal (comprehension) | |
| Measures: | Lexical Knowledge/word understanding | |
| CHC: | Gc (Crystallized intelligence) | |
| CLOSER Source: | Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: NSHD 1957 (Age 11) (opens in a new tab) | |
| Administration method: | Teacher/psychologist/trained individual; face to face; read aloud | |
| Procedure: | After the participant completed the word reading task, the interviewer asked the child whether they knew the meaning of each word, e.g. “What is a ___”, “What do we mean by ___”. The interviewer noted the number of correct responses. The overall testing session at age 11 lasted under 2 hours. | |
| Link to questionnaire: | https://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/NSHD/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=questionnaires:1957_sm_nf3.pdf (opens in new tab) | |
| Scoring: | One mark for each correct word (0 – 50) | |
| Item-level variable(s): | Not currently available | |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | VOC11R, VOC11R57, VOC1157, VOC11N | |
| Descriptives: | Raw score | Normalised score |
| N = 4,027 | N = 4,027 | |
| Range = 0 – 49 | Range = 50 – 153 | |
| Mean = 29.99 | Mean = 102.25 | |
| SD = 7.45 | SD = 15.33 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 130.33, SD = 1.06, Range = 128 – 137 | |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | NSHD – Age 8 – Vocabulary | |
| BCS70 – Age 10 – BAS Word Definition | ||
| ALSPAC – Age 8.5 – WISC-III Vocabulary | ||
| Source: | Pigeon DA. Tests used in the 1954 and 1957 surveys. In: Douglas JWB, ed. The home and the school. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964. (Appendix 1.) | |
| Technical resources: | None | |
| Example articles: | Richards, M., Hardy, R., Kuh, D., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2001). Birth weight and cognitive function in the British 1946 birth cohort: longitudinal population based study. BMJ, 322(7280), 199-203. | |
| Kuh, D., Richards, M., Hardy, R., Butterworth, S., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2004). Childhood cognitive ability and deaths up until middle age: a post-war birth cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 33(2), 408-413. | ||