The 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 11 sweep using the General Ability Test (Verbal and Non-verbal).

Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.

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Go to:

• Overview of all cognitive measures in NCDS
• Overview of childhood cognitive measures across all studies

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