Cognitive measures in the 1958 National Child Development Study

Click on the individual cognitive measures in the table below to find out more.

Age	Measure
7	Southgate Group Reading Test Problem Arithmetic Test (NFER devised) Copying Designs Test Human Figure Drawing
11	General Ability Test (Verbal and Non-Verbal) Reading Comprehension Test (NFER devised) Mathematics Test (NFER devised) Copying Designs Test
16	Reading Comprehension Test (NFER devised) Mathematics Test (NFER devised)
37 (Tests completed by a sub-sample.)	Basic Literacy and Numeracy Skills (ALBSU and NFER devised)
50	Verbal Learning/ Word List Recall Test Timed Letter Search/ Letter Cancellation Test Verbal Fluency (Animal Naming)
61-63 (At the time of writing, cognitive tests were provisional pending pilot and fieldwork.)	Proposed repeat of tests at age 50
Multi-age (Tests completed by the children of a sub-sample of cohort members when the cohort member was aged 34. The child respondents were aged 3 years, 11 months, and 16 days or older.)	Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Revised (PPVT-R) Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) Maths Subscale Reading Recognition Subscale Reading Comprehension Subscale McCarthy Scale of Children’s Abilities Verbal Memory Subscale (intended for respondents aged 3 - 6 years 11 months) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) Digit Span Subscale (intended for respondents aged 7 years and older)

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