The Assessment of Executive Control Functions in Children: Implications for Learning.

MUSSO, M.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology Press

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2008 vol. 43 p. 231 - 231

0020-7594

This research focuses on the assessment of indicators of appropriate emergence of inhibition in the activation of inhibitory responses. Processes were studied with measures for latencies, corrections, and other responses. Interventions over executive control mechanisms were designed for and adapted to situations of school instruction/learning. It was hypothesised that children improve their performance in executive control mechanisms after intervention. Results showed significant improvement of Executive Control after interventions, and that the novel assessment methods designed were efficient and reliable for application in school environments. Findings have concrete application in the development of better school-centred intervention programmes improving learning outcomes.