Cognitive measures in the Millennium Cohort Study

Click on the individual cognitive measures to find out more.

Age	Measure
9 months	Developmental Milestones (incl. motor coordination and vocabulary)
3 years	British Ability Scales II (BAS II) Naming Vocabulary Bracken School Readiness Assessment-Revised (BSRA-R)
5 years	British Ability Scales II (BAS II) Naming Vocabulary Pattern Construction Picture Similarities
7 years	British Ability Scales II (BAS II) Word Reading Pattern Construction National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) Progress in Maths (adapted)
11 years	British Ability Scales II (BAS II) Verbal Similarities Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) Cambridge Gambling Task Spatial Working Memory Task
14 years (APU test administered to cohort member, mother and partner.)	Applied Psychology Unit (APU) Vocabulary Test Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) Cambridge Gambling Task
17 years (MCS7 not available at time of writing.)	Number Analogies (GL Assessment)

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Explore the cognitive measures in other studies covered by this guide:

• 1946 National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD)
• 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS)
• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
• Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Explore the cognitive measures across studies by life stage:

• Childhood
• Adulthood

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This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.