CLOSER Discovery

School nurses and health visitors interviewed mothers at home about the child's health and development, school absences, play, the mother's work and the home and family circumstances. Teachers administered cognitive tests at school. Topics covered included: accidents, illnesses, hospital admissions and out-patient visits, school clinic visits, absences, bed wetting, general health and behaviour, schooling, play and hobbies, the dwelling, the household, the mother's work, subsequent pregnancies and family history. Tests included a sentence reading test, a mechanical reading and comprehension test and a picture intelligence test.

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1954 School Nurse's Interview with Mother

Face-to-face paper and pencil interviewing.

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1954-5 School Absence Record

Collecting and assembling data from multiple, often heterogeneous sources that have one or more reference points in common, and at least one of the sources was originally produced for other purposes.

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1954 Survey of the Mental Ability and Scholastic Attainment

Assessing specific properties (or characteristics) of beings, things, phenomena by applying pre-established standards and/or specialized instruments or techniques.