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

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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v13i6.38399

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preschool children, web application screener, school readiness, executive functions

Abstract


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.

Author Biography

Kafenia Botsoglou, University of Thessaly

Professor / Pedagogy: Contemporary Pedagogical Approaches-Didactics and Methodology, Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

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2023-09-20

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Zygouris, N. C., Botsoglou, K., Dimitriou, G., Axelou, O., Oikonomou, P. ., Beazidou, E. ., & Tziallas, G. D. . (2023). Implementing a Web Application Screener for Preschoolers: Executive Functions and School Readiness. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 13(6), pp. 123–138. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v13i6.38399

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Vol. 13 No. 6 (2023)

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Copyright (c) 2023 Nikolaos C Zygouris, Kafenia Botsoglou, Georgios Dimitriou, Olympia Axelou, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Eleftheria Beazidou, Grigoris D. Tziallas

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