Hello

I'll look and I'll let you know

Regards

Thank you Jakub!

The NIH toolkit has a variety of cognitive measure that are time efficient because the measures are based on item-response theory. However, I am not sure if they can be included in survey research.  A proxy variable like education or questions about cognitive difficulties might be a better approach.  You should consider that being asked to do cognitive tasks in the midst of responding to a survey  may cause a lot of respondents to discontinue participation.

Thank you! I will look into the NIH toolkit and keep your advice in mind!

Hello,

You may wish to look at the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery (MAB) published by Sigma: http://www.sigmaassessmentsystems.com/assessments/multidimensional-aptitude-battery-ii/ 

It contains subtests that assess crystallized knowledge (Verbal Scale subtests), those that assess fluid ability (Performance Scale subtests and Arithmetic).

Good luck.

Is the survey among adults or aging population ? Fluid intelligence is likely to decline in the declining years. I'm inclined to Multiple Intelligences than to Cattell's Fluid/Crystallized division of cognitive  acquisition.

Thank you all so much! This is a big help!

Professor Maxwell- the survey will be given to a life span sample, so older adults will naturalyl be included. I'm wondering what you mean by Multiple Intelligences in this context. I want to include cognitive measures to be able to control for possible effects of decline in fluid intelligence. My outcome measure is preference for social activities, and I want to be able to test whether those preferences are solely due to changes in the willingness/ ability to engage in cognitive choice tasks. Are there other types of intelligence/ cognitive measures you think I should include?

Thank you again!

Yochai