1970 British Cohort Study
Age 10 Survey (1980)
BCS70 Age 10 Educational Score Form
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CHILD HEALTH AND EDUCATION STUDY
A national study in England, Wales and Scotland
EDUCATIONAL SCORE FORM
Director: Neville R Butler M D, F R C P, F R C O G, D C H
Department of Child Health Research Unit University of Bristol
Under the auspices of the University of Bristol and the National Birthday Trust
PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS
Child's Surname
Child's Forenames
Child's Sex
Child's Date of Birth
Today's Date
School Name
School Address
GENERAL NOTES
PLEASE ENSURE THAT EVERY QUESTION IS ANSWERED
PLEASE USE SOFT PENCIL ONLY. AND RUB OUT ANY MISTAKES THOROUGHLY
This document contains score sheets for the following measures:
The CHES Pictorial Language Comprehension Test (pages 2 - 5)
The Diagnostic Measures referred to in the Instruction Booklet (pages 6 - 9)
The Social Judgement Scale (pages 10 - 11)
Score sheet for the Ches Pictorial Language Comprehension Test
elephant
playground
plug
rhubarb
aeroplane
eyebrow
elbow
sun
church
projector
fossil
diver
wardrobe
hyena
sweets
cinema
cake
iron
fire-engine
waistcoat
corkscrew
ointment
telescope
mountain
veil
pedestrian
reptile
toboggan
migration
destination
crockery
saturation
garment
nourishment
eclipse
implement
douse
geyser
osteopath
upholstery
detritus
apex
submergence
accessories
abstinence
arbitrator
erosion
radiation
quagmire
barrister
suburb
carnivore
constellation
profile
verandah
duplicate (pronounce as a noun)
horticulture
vortex
abode
civilian
vista
condiments
metamorphosis
zenith
itinerary
sinew
paraphernalia
hosiery
zone
vertebrate
formula
Sentences
No house has a chimney.
No ball has spots.
Although it was raining the girl was not wearing a mac or boots.
The lorry with the trailer is being passed by the car with the caravan.
Before the ball had touched the surface, the dog was swimming to retrieve it.
The house was as tall as the lamp post but smaller than the crane.
Only the cat is without its food.
Not all the chains are broken.
Not only the children have kites.
Not only the curtains are striped.
The girl ran as fast the boy in shorts, but slower than the one in a track suit.
There's not a toy without a box.
Not all the lorries are loaded.
There's not a shoe without a lace.
Only the beach is without a tent.
There is no bottle unopened.
Sequences
When he had finished drinking his tea, he read his paper. Correct Order 1 2
The man picked up the ladder which was leaning against the house and walked off down the street. Correct Order 2 1
The dog chased the cat which ran up the tree. Correct Order 1 2
When the boy had put on his mackintosh, he pulled on his wellingtons, put up his umbrella, and jumped in a big puddle. Correct Order 2 3 1 4
After the rainfall the sun came out, birds flew to the trees and found their nests. Correct Order 4 2 1 3
When the train arrived in the station the girl got in followed by the boy. Correct Order 3 2 1
When the plane had landed the passengers disembarked and the pilot got out. Correct Order 3 1 2
Before leaving the house to catch the bus, she swept up the cornflakes that the cat had knocked over. Correct Order 4 1 2 3
They ate the apples which they had bought from the fruit-stall, and threw the cores over the fence where they were eaten by the goat. Correct Order 3 1 2 4
Before rising to his feet to begin his speech, the mayor then thanked the little girl for the flowers she had presented him. Correct Order 3 2 4 1
They kicked the beach ball, which they had just blown up, until it landed in the sea, where it alarmed a seagull. Current Order 1 2 3 4
Before she went upstairs and climbed into bed, the old lady bolted the door and turned out the light. Correct Order 4 2 3 1
Before he turned to the orchestra and lifted his baton, the conductor bowed to the audience and acknowledged their applause. Correct Order 3 4 1 2
Diagnostic Measures
Diagnostic Reading
First word list - teacher to mark incorrect responces on this form
Ask the child to read out each word from the 'FIRST WORD LIST' of the DIAGNOSTIC READING SECTION of the instruction booklet (page 7). Mark only those words which are pronounced incorrectly. The judgement of correctness should be made within terms of the child's particular dialect, accent or customary intonations. When the child has failed four successive items please stop the reading and underline carefully the last word attempted.
MARK THE APPROPRIATE BOX ONLY FOR THOSE WORDS WHICH ARE PRONOUNCED INCORRECTLY.
play
sharp
list
old
jumping
before
soon
open
sly
ground
children
ditch
mouth
air
speaking
low
everyone
mischief
friendly
because
strange
farewell
meadow
frightened
towards
beauty
adventure
altogether
thistle
autumn
gracious
ocean
quarrelsome
neighbourhood
jealousy
delicious
sovereign
manufacture
idleness
population
acquaintance
palest
ceremony
monumental
acknowledge
threaten
burial
league
nevertheless
triumphant
rogue
ruinous
deny
original
consequences
reverence
cheque
pyramid
vehicle
emphasise
lieutenant
beneficial
piety
endeavour
susceptible
sacrificial
anticipate
idiotic
area
herioc
diameter
facility
cynical
analysis
picturesque
solicitor
inaccuracy
stratagem
persuasive
manoeuvres
preference
tyranny
catastrophe
opaque
decisive
miscellaneous
recipe
precipitous
pneumonia
calibre
mausoleum
occipital
facetious
tsetse
nausea
rhetoric
unanimity
heinous
fortuitous
desultory
Second word list - teacher to mark responces on this form
Writing and Spelling
Naming Body Parts - The Left Right Test
Sit facing the child across a table
With the child sitting in front of you, please give the following instructions and observe and record the responses. Mark all that apply.
Show me your right hand: Right hand shown
Show me your left ear: Left ear shown
Put your hands of the table in front of the child
Which is my right hand?: Observer's right hand indicated
Touch my left hand with your right hand
Point to my right ear with your right hand
Touch my right hand with your right hand
Point to my left ear with your left hand
Touch my right hand with your left hand
Did the child appear to use any special strategies:
please describe
Sequential Recall - Months of the Year
Please ask the child to say the month of the year.
Write down the inital letter of each month as it is said, indicate long pauses with dots. e.g. If a child pauses after August and inverts September and October, but then corrects them, the entry would read: J F M A M J J A...O S, "no", S O N D
'Say the months of the year': Child's response
Please record all corrections. Please also record any queries about the importance of order, e.g. 'Do I have to say all of them in order?'
'Now say them backwards': Child's response
Please record all corrections. Please also record any queries about the importance of order, e.g. 'Do I have to say all of them in order?'
Social Judgement Scale
Please read out each of the following situational discriptions to the child and summarise the answers, in about 20 to 25 words, on the lines below each item. The main purpose of the questions is to examine the reasoning underlying a child's statement that an action was right or wrong. Do not amplify in any way or discuss the item before noting the answers, although the question of 'why' the child has made his or her judgement may be pursued with subsidiary questions. Please do not offer your views to the child on the social imperatives involved here, until all the items have been answered.
A boy has lost his pocket money, so he takes some of the money that his mother has put out for the milkman. Was that right or wrong?....Why?
Two children are having a lot of fun with a football. A third child has no one else to play with and asks to join in the game. The two children refuse. Were they right or wrong to refuse?....Why?
A boy's marble rolls down the drain: it was his only marble. He asks if he can borrow just one marble from another boy who has a lot of marbles. The other boy refuses, so the first boy takes a marble and goes off with it. Was he right or wrong to do that?....Why?
A mother asks her daughter to help with some work at home. The daughter does not want to help; she wants to play with her friends. She tells her mother that she as to go back to school to fetch her homework books, although she has no homework to do. Was she right to say that, or wrong?....Why?
A boy takes somebody else's toy and plays with it. He is careless and breaks the motor. The teacher asks the class who damaged the toy. The boy says nothing. Was he right or wrong to say nothing?....Why?
A girl sees a blind man trying to cross a busy street. She is in a great hurry because her friends have said that she must be on time for the party; it's her first real party. She is sure someone else will come along to help the man cross the road. She runs off to the party. Was she right or wrong?....Why?
A boy sees one of his friends breaking a school window and climbing in. The next day the teacher asks who broke into the school, because that person did a lot of damage. The boy who saw it says nothing. Was he right or wrong to say nothing?....Why?
Some children are playing football. One of them is running backwards to head a ball. He doesn't look where he is going and treads on a girl's foot; it hurts her a great deal. He apologises at once but she slaps him. Was she right or wrong?....Why?
PLEASE CONSULT PAGE 12 OF THE INSTRUCTION BOOKLET ABOUT THE RETURN OF THE FORM.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP.
bcs_80_ossc
Score sheet for the Ches Pictorial Language Comprehension Test
Sentences
Sequences
Diagnostic Measures
Diagnostic Reading
First word list - teacher to mark incorrect responces on this form
Second word list - teacher to mark responces on this form
Writing and Spelling
Naming Body Parts - The Left Right Test
Sequential Recall - Months of the Year
Social Judgement Scale
BCS70 Age 10 Educational Score Form
