COGNITION AND ADULT EDUCATION

Cognition And Adult Education

Cognition And Adult Education

Procedures

This study will used data from various areas and multivariate regression to estimate the continuing effects of adult education on multiple measures of midlife cognitive ability.

Data Collection

At age 53 years, survey members will take the NART. This pronunciation test presents 50 irregular words of increasing difficulty, chosen to violate conventional grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules. The following are examples of words in the beginning, middle, and end of the test: 1. CHORD ... 20. ASSIGNATE ... 33. DRACHM ... 50. CAMPANILE. To pronounce the words correctly, the respondent must recognize them ...