Screening Executive Functions of Preschool Children via a Web Application

Zygouris, Nikolaos C.; Botsoglou, Kafenia; Dadaliaris, Antonios N.; Dimitriou, Georgios; Trontsios, Daniil; Stamoulis, Georgios; Vavougios, George D.

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“…It is preferable for an efficient assessment of a student's abilities, limitations, level of academic performance at the time and eligibility for special education services. The interdisciplinary team that may conduct assessments may also design the intervention program that kindergarten students and infants with low academic success must adhere to [38] [48]. The web-based screeners, on condition that are valid, can only be a supporting tool at the diagnosis.…”

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“…In the present study, in order to assess EFs of preschoolers, a battery of test tasks was constructed in order to assess their inhibition ability (by a go/no-go task), as well as their visual and auditory working memory and their cognitive flexibility (by a visuospatial task). Furthermore, apart from the core, two additional tasks of school readiness were designed across the two main domains as an assessment of reading abilities, by including a letter-sound correlation task and a word identification task [38].…”

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Implementing a Web Application Screener for Preschoolers: Executive Functions and School Readiness

Zygouris,

Botsoglou,

Dimitriou

et al. 2023

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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Web applications can be constructed to assess the executive functions and literacy skills of preschool aged children using a variety of research protocols. This work describes such a web application and its research protocol with tasks that screen inhibition, auditory and visual working memory, letter sound connection, word identification, and cognitive flexibility. The application was tested on a group of 65 preschoolers with cognitive deficits whose parents were advised to allow their children to reattend kindergarten classes and a control group of 65 typically achieving peers of similar age and gender. The results revealed that children at the age of four and five years old with cognitive deficits presented lower scores of correct answers and larger latencies in all six tasks compared to children that participated in the control group.

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