Table 3.

Test–Retest Correlations in COWA Scores, by Study Strata.

Group	M (SD) Visit 1	M (SD) Visit 2	Pearson’s r
Total	24.4 (11.4)	24.3 (11.1)	.77
Sex
Male	23.4 (11.5)	22.5 (11.3)	.75
Female	24.8 (11.4)	25.1 (11.0)	.77
Age in years
60–69	26.9 (10.3)	26.5 (11.0)	.76
70–79	23.7 (11.7)	22.8 (11.1)	.76
80 +	20.7 (11.7)	21.5 (9.9)	.80
Education in years
⩽12	20.5 (10.0)	21.1 (10.0)	.76
>13	28.9 (11.3)	27.4 (11.3)	.73
Native language spoken well
Not at all	26.0 (11.5)	25.4 (11.6)	.79
A little	25.1 (10.9)	24.0 (11.6)	.75
Moderately well	27.2 (12.2)	24.3 (11.3)	.70
Very well	20.3 (10.3)	23.0 (9.4)	.80

Note. COWA = Controlled Oral Word Association.

All Pearson correlations were significant, p < .05; all pairwise comparisons of stability coefficients were insignificant, p > .05.