ACT Form 84 Summary

Data Description

ACT Form 84 collects the cognitive screening information on ACT participants as measured by the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI). A high-level overview of the content areas is shown below.

Pre-CASI Questions

• Is this a good day, a bad day, or an average day for you?
• If bad day, why? (physical, emotional, other) 

CASI Questions / Tasks

• Past events and knowledge recall
• Word and numeric pattern repetition and recall
• Orientation to place and time 
• Inventory (list generating fluency)
• Abstracting similarities
• Judgment / actions in different contexts
• Verbal repetition, writing, and instructional tasks
• Object recognition, recall

Administrative

• Start / stop time, duration
• Exam status, validity of score

Important Note: Form contents have changed over the years so all the above items may not be collected over the full duration of the ACT study. 

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Data Structure 

This Form 84 dataset contains one row per visit at which the study form was collected.