• measure Reading and Writing

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YE_COG18
     
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    Reading and Writing assesses the child's reading and writing ability (compared to children of the same age) , reading habits (e.g. how many books are there at home, how many books does the child read, how often are the twins read by the parents, at what age was the child able to read), and reading and writing enjoyment (e.g., does the child enjoy reading,...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Verbal Fluency Test

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YC_BS2 YE_COG18
     
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    The Verbal Fluency Test assesses how many words that belong to the same predetermined category participants can produce in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, specified objects such as animals or fruits, or phonological, words beginning with a specified letter such as p.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Controlled Oral Word Association task (COWA)

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YC_BS1
     
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    The Controlled Oral Word Association task (COWA) is a subtest of the Multilingual Aphasia Exam and measures verbal fluency. In the task, participants are given a specific semantic category (jobs or animals) or letter ("r" or "t") and are asked to generate as many words as possible in that specific category or starting with that specific letter. The number...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure One Minute Reading Task

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_7 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3
     
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    One subtest of the ‘one minute reading test’ was administered as a measure of technical reading performance, or oral reading fluency. It measures the accuracy and speed of decoding. Children were instructed to read out loud as many words as possible in 1 minute without making errors from a card containing 120 unrelated words.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Rey’s Verbal Learning Test

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YC_BS1 YC_BS2
     
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    The Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Task (AVLT) measures short- and long-term verbal memory. In the task, a list of 15 unrelated, concrete nouns is presented via audio with a 1 second interval over five learning trials. After each presentation, participants have to name as many of the presented words as possible. Next, after a delay interval of 20-30...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YE_COG18
     
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    The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) is a measure of verbal learning and memory. In this task, a list of 16 items, with four words from each of four categories (fruits; herbs and spices; clothing; tools) is presented. The list is presented five times, and the participant is instructed to recall as many words as possible from the list following each...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure School results and performance

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_TRF5 YS_7 YS_TRF7 YS_10 YS_TRF10 YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_DSC YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG12 YS_TRIP age 4 YS_TRIP age 7 YS_TRIP age 10 YS_TRIP age 12
     
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    School results and performance assesses the child's behavior and results at primary and secondary school. Questions include reports of the child's performance in subjects at primary (gymnastics, reading, arithmetic, language, geography) and secondary school (mathematics, languages such as English, French and German, geography, history, natural sciences);...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure CITO score

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YS_CITO YS_DT YS_TRIP age 12
     
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    The CITO-test is a standardized test for educational achievement that is administered in the final grade (when children are 11 or 12 years old) of elementary school. The CITO-test consists of multiple choice items in 4 different educational skills, namely Arithmetic, Language, Study Skills, and Science and Social Studies. All scores on the scales are...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Demographics

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_1 YS_2 YS_3 YS_5 YS_TRF5 YS_7 YS_TRF7 YS_10 YS_TRF10 YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_ACTION BB1_1 YC_ACTION BB1_2 YC_ACTION BB2 YC_ACTION - BB3 YS_REF YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YC_DSC YE_FITNSS YE_ATTEF1 YE_ATTEF2 YE_ATTEF3 YC_ADHMRI YS_DT YE_COG12 YE_COG18 YS_TRIP age 1 YS_TRIP age 1-2 YS_TRIP age 3 YS_TRIP age 4 YS_TRIP age 5 YS_TRIP age 7 YS_TRIP age 10 YS_TRIP age 12
     
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    Demographic information includes age and year of birth, biological sex and gender, country and place of birth, current zipcode, nationality, religion, educational attainment, spoken laguages, and information on multiple births.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Language and stuttering

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_2 YS_5 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2
     
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    Language development and stuttering contains questions about the child's speech development and the parent's and child's stuttering. Questions include, for example, "Have you ever stuttered?", "Did the stuttering bother you?", "Has your child ever stuttered?", "Does the child slowly repeat a sound from a sentence?", and "Does the child prolong a sound...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Shortened Nonword Repetition Task (NWR-S)

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Available measurements:
    Generation R  9-10 years
     
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    The Nonword Repetition Task assesses interactions between the auditory system, phonological representations, articulation, vocabulary, and literacy. During the task, children are asked to repeat nonwords of two, three, four or five syllables with differing phonotactic probabilities. The original NWR task consists of 40 nonwords, whereas the short version...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure CITO score

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire    Behavioral/cognitive task
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    Generation R  13-14 years
     
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    The CITO-test is a standardized test for educational achievement that is administered in the final grade (when children are 11 or 12 years old) of elementary school. The CITO-test consists of multiple choice items in 4 different educational skills, namely Arithmetic, Language, Study Skills, and Science and Social Studies. All scores on the scales are...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Language

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Generation R  13-14 years
     
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    Language items assess the child's language speaking, including whether the child speaks languages other than Dutch, what languages the child speaks to others (mother, father, brothers, sisters, grandparents, other adults and other children), and language difficulties with Dutch and other languages.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Demographics

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
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    Generation R  Early pregnancy Mid pregnancy Late pregnancy 3 years 4 years 5-6 years 8 years 17-18 years Covid questionnaires
     
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    The demographics questionnaire assesses many kinds of demographic characteristics of the child and its parents and grandparents. It includes items about the parents' birthdate, age, country of origin, language spoken at home, religion, household composition and marital status/single parenthood, living situation, and highest education.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Five-Minute Speech Sample

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: Interview
    Available measurements:
    Generation R  Late pregnancy
     
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    The Coding of Expressed Emotion from the Five Minute Speech Sample is a method to assess the emotional climate in families. The Five Minute Speech Sample is a task in which a family member speaks about a topic of their choice for five minutes while being recorded. The sample is then transcribed and coded for emotional expression using the EE coding...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Macarthur Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI)

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
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    Generation R  1.5 years
     
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    The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (N-CDI) are a pair of widely used parent-report instruments for assessing communicative skills in infants and toddlers. The CDIs are parent report instruments which capture important information about children's developing abilities in early language, including vocabulary comprehension, production,...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Language Development Survey (LDS)

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
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    Generation R  2.5 years
     
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    The Language Development Survey (LDS) assesses receptive and expressive language development. It is a 310-word vocabulary checklist, e.g., ‘Apple’ and ‘Tortoise’, with words arranged within 14 semantic categories. Parents are asked to identify the words that the child uses spontaneously.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Speech and language development

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
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    Generation R  17-18 years
     
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    Speech and language development assesses language and communication skills among 17 year old adolescents, completed by the main caregiver via 9 questions, including more detailed questions on language problems like stuttering.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Neuropsychological development (NEPSY-II-NL)

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
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    Generation R  7 years
     
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    The NEPSY-II-NL is a Dutch adaptation of the NEPSY-II which assesses neuropsychological functioning. The test battery consists of 34 subtests that assess four domains: Attention and executive functions, Language, Memory and learning, Sensorimotoric integration, Social cognition, and Visuospatial processing.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024

  • measure Child Development Inventory (CDI) - Receptive and expressive language

    Study:Generation R
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
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    Generation R  1 year 1.5 years
     
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    The Child Development Inventory (CDI) was used to assess receptive and expressive language using age-appropriate items from the expressive language scale and the language comprehension scale. The scales ask caregivers to indicate on yes/no-items what sounds or words the child produces or understands.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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