Assessing Children’s Executive Function: BADS-C Validity

Reliability and Validity of the BRIEF-A for Assessing Deaf College Students’ Executive Function

This study investigated the reliability and validity of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions–Adult Form (BRIEF-A) when used with deaf college students. The BRIEF-A was administered to 176 deaf and 184 hearing students of whom 25 deaf students and 56 hearing students self-identified as having an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnoses. Cronbach’s alpha internal ...

The ecological validity of tests of executive function.

Ninety-two mixed etiology neurological patients and 216 control participants were assessed on a range of neuropsychological tests, including 10 neuropsychological measures of executive function derived from 6 different tests. People who knew the patients well (relatives or carers) completed a questionnaire about the patient's dysexecutive problems in everyday life, and this paper reports the ex...

An Early Years Toolbox for Assessing Early Executive Function, Language, Self-Regulation, and Social Development: Validity, Reliability, and Preliminary Norms

Several methods of assessing executive function (EF), self-regulation, language development, and social development in young children have been developed over previous decades. Yet new technologies make available methods of assessment not previously considered. In resolving conceptual and pragmatic limitations of existing tools, the Early Years Toolbox (EYT) offers substantial advantages for ea...

Executive function in sleep apnea: controlling for attentional capacity in assessing executive attention.

STUDY OBJECTIVES As the effects of general slowness and decreased attentional capacity on higher executive attention have not been fully taken into account in the sleep apnea literature, we statistically controlled for basic attentional performance in evaluating executive attention per se in sleep apnea patients. DESIGN A case-controlled design was used with comparison of basic and executive ...

Assessing the Concurrent Validity of a Novel Performance-Based Task of Executive Functioning