Questionnaires


Survey Instruments

The BCS70 Ten-year Follow-up made use of some 15 separate survey documents, comprising manuals, assessments, self- completion questionnaires, interview schedules, and a medical examination record.  The table below identifies the survey documents, shows those for which data are deposited at the ESRC Data Archive, and specifies the number of cases for which data are available. Abbreviations used to identify survey instruments in parts of this documentation are also indicated.

The questionnaires were distributed as two packs known as the Educational Pack and the Health Pack because they were distributed by the Education and Health Authorities respectively. In terms of actual content matter there is a degree of overlap between the two packs but the terms `Educational' and `Health' are convenient summary labels.

The Health Pack was designed mainly by the Director - Professor Neville Butler - with help and advice from many quarters. Dr Walter Barker and Dr Mary Haslum were mainly responsible in designing and piloting the material in the Educational Pack. They were also responsible for the preparation of a Special Education Pack which was used in circumstances described below (see paragraph 1.57). Again this work was done in consultation with a number of specialists and experts (see Acknowledgements).

BCS70 Ten-year survey instruments deposited with the ESRC Data Archive:

Survey Instrument Number Deposited
EDUCATIONAL PACK    
Instruction Booklet for Educational Tests dna dna
Pictorial Language Comprehension Test 12,701 Yes
Friendly Maths Test 11,685 Yes
Shortened Edinburgh Reading Test 11,685 Yes
British Ability Scales 11,685 Yes
Educational Score Form 12,805 Yes
Educational Questionnaire 12,755 Yes
Pupil Question Form 12,699 Yes
HEALTH PACK    
Instruction Booklet on Nursing and Medical Aspects dna dna
Maternal Self-Completion Form 13,879 Yes
Parental Interview Form 13,869 Yes
Medical Examination Form 13,869 Yes
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PACK    
Instruction Booklet for Special Educational Tests dna No
Special Test Booklet 456 No
Special Teacher Questionnaire 456 No

Note: dna="does" not apply

Details of the development and administration of both the Educational Pack and the Health Pack are given in the Guide to the Dataset.

The following detailed subject areas were covered:

Parents

Medical history
Accidents
Use of health services
Father's occupation
Mother's occupation
Type of accommodation
Parent's level of education
household amenities
Neighbourhood
Hospital admissions
Clinic attendance
The child at school
Child's skills
Child's behaviour: Maudsley
Parental Behaviour Inventory
Mother's health: Cornell Health
Inventory

School

School composition
Curriculum
Discipline and ethos
Teacher's assessment of child's
ability
Maudsley Behaviour Inventory
Conners Hyperactivity Scale 

Medical

Medical examination
Disability and chronic illness
Height and weight
Head circumference
Blood pressure
Pulse
Near and distant vision
Audiometry
Laterality
Co-ordination

Subject

Academic success
Smoking
Attitudes to school
Food and drink consumed
Caraloc scale (ability to control destiny)
Lawseq Self-Esteem scale
Eysenck Personality Inventory 
CHES Pictorial Language Comprehension Test (vocabulary)
Diagnostic reading (pronunciation)
Writing and spelling (dictation)
Handwriting test
Naming body parts
Sequential recall: months of the year
Social judgment scale
British Ability Scales:
   Word definitions
   Recall of digits
   Similarities
   Matrices
Friendly Maths Test
Shortened Edinburgh Reading Test