A Novel Approach to Measure Executive Functions in Students: An Evaluation of Two Child-Friendly Apps

Interest in measurement of children’s executive functions has shown a major increase over the past two decades. The present study evaluates two new apps (EYT and eFun) for measuring executive functions in children. The results of this study show that children (aged 5–8) enjoy executive function asse...

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Autores principales: Berg, Valeska, Rogers, Shane L., McMahon, Mark, Garrett, Michael, Manley, Dominic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7378958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765379
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01702
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description Interest in measurement of children’s executive functions has shown a major increase over the past two decades. The present study evaluates two new apps (EYT and eFun) for measuring executive functions in children. The results of this study show that children (aged 5–8) enjoy executive function assessment in the form of games on an iPad. However, only one executive function, EYT working memory, showed significant positive correlations with several types of grades (e.g., English and maths) in primary school students. New, self-assessed, child-friendly executive function measurement tools have the potential to provide future possibilities for teachers to integrate information on cognitive ability into student learning plans.
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spelling pubmed-73789582020-08-05 A Novel Approach to Measure Executive Functions in Students: An Evaluation of Two Child-Friendly Apps Berg, Valeska Rogers, Shane L. McMahon, Mark Garrett, Michael Manley, Dominic Front Psychol Psychology Interest in measurement of children’s executive functions has shown a major increase over the past two decades. The present study evaluates two new apps (EYT and eFun) for measuring executive functions in children. The results of this study show that children (aged 5–8) enjoy executive function assessment in the form of games on an iPad. However, only one executive function, EYT working memory, showed significant positive correlations with several types of grades (e.g., English and maths) in primary school students. New, self-assessed, child-friendly executive function measurement tools have the potential to provide future possibilities for teachers to integrate information on cognitive ability into student learning plans. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7378958/ /pubmed/32765379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01702 Text en Copyright © 2020 Berg, Rogers, McMahon, Garrett and Manley. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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