child_tasks: Shape Trail Test

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Shape Trail Test

Description

Time that it takes children to complete various activities.

Usage

child_tasks

Format

A tibble with 68 observations of 13 variables

gender

Factor with levels Male/Female

age_in_months

Age in months

age_group

Factor with levels "6 year olds", "7 year olds", "8 year olds", "9 year olds"

day_night_completion_time_secs

Time to complete day-night test in seconds

day_night_accuracy_score

Accuract score in day-night test

counting_span_score

Score on counting span test

backward_digit_span_score

Score on backward digit test

card_sort_preswitch_time_secs

Time to sort cards into boxes with animal labels.

card_sort_postswitch_time_secs

Time to sort cards into boxes with colors

card_sort_preswitch_accuracy

Accuracy in sorting cards into boxes with animals

card_sort_postswitch_accuracy

Accuracy in sorting cards into boxes with colors

stt_cv_trail_a_secs

Time to connect dots from 1-15

stt_cv_trail_b_secs

Time to connect dots 1-8 and 1-7 alternating circles and squares

Details

More information on the activities of the children.

1. The day-night test. Children are told to say "day" when shown a picture of the moon and stars, and to say "night" when shown a picture of the sun. Time to complete test and number correct (0 incorrect, 1 point for self-corrected, 2 points for correct) are measured.

2. Counting-span test. Children were required to count the number of red dots on cards, and recall the number of dots without looking at them. Given in sets of 1 through 5. Max score of 15.

3. Digit Span Backward. Children were read from 2-8 numbers and asked to recite them backwards. Two numbers repeated 4 times, and the rest repeated twice. Max score of 16.

4. Card-sort task. Children sorted cards that were blue/red with either bunnies/boats on them into boxes that had either pictures of boats and bunnies or were blue and red. Time to sort and a correctness score were measured.

5. Shape Trail Test. In trial A the children were to connect the dots in order from 1-15. In trial B the children were to connect the dots (1-8 circles and 1-7 squares) in order, alternating between circles and squares. Time to completion was measured.

From the authors: "In this paper we report an initial validation of the Shape Trail Test–Child Version (STT-CV) with a non-clinical sample of children aged 6 to 9 years. The STT-CV has been developed as an age-appropriate and culturally fair direct downward extension of the Trail Making Test (TMT) for the assessment of cognitive flexibility."

Source

Chan AYC, Morgan S-J (2018) Assessing children's cognitive flexibility with the Shape Trail Test. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0198254.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198254

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