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Setareh Mokhtari; Pariya Parchini – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Objective: Cognitive atypicalities are prevalent in autism. This prevalence has exhorted researchers to look for developing the most appropriate evaluation tools, which enable them to study cognitive functions in autism accurately and efficiently. Drawing tasks, due to their numerous advantages, are known as promising tools for examining cognitive…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Freehand Drawing, Evaluation Methods, Perceptual Development
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Keating, Jennifer; Gaffney, Rebecca; Bramham, Jessica; Downes, Michelle – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
This systematic review aims to (1) establish how different types of assessment measure sensory modulation difficulties in children with ADHD, and (2) to examine whether sensory modulation difficulties can be separated from ADHD symptomatology. The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42018091730). PRISMA guidelines were used. Three…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Evaluation Methods, Children, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Oliver-Hoyo, Maria; Sloan, Caroline – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
The development of the Visual-Perceptual Chemistry Specific (VPCS) assessment tool is based on items that align to eight visual-perceptual skills considered as needed by chemistry students. This tool includes a comprehensive range of visual operations and presents items within a chemistry context without requiring content knowledge to solve…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Visual Perception, Perceptual Development, Chemistry
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O'Brien, Justin; Tsermentseli, Stella; Cummins, Omar; Happe, Francesca; Heaton, Pamela; Spencer, Janine – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
In this article, we examine the extent to which children with autism and children with learning difficulties can be discriminated from their responses to different patterns of sensory stimuli. Using an adapted version of the Short Sensory Profile (SSP), sensory processing was compared in 34 children with autism to 33 children with typical…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Autism, Learning Disabilities, Discriminant Analysis
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Shore, David I.; Burack, Jacob A.; Miller, Danny; Joseph, Shari; Enns, James T. – Developmental Science, 2006
Changes to a scene often go unnoticed if the objects of the change are unattended, making change detection an index of where attention is focused during scene perception. We measured change detection in school-age children and young adults by repeatedly alternating two versions of an image. To provide an age-fair assessment we used a bimanual…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Adults, Memory, Computer Software
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Justice, Laura M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Skibbe, Lori E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
PURPOSE: This research determined the psychometric quality of a criterion-referenced measure that was thought to measure preschoolers' print-concept knowledge (PCK). METHOD: This measure, titled the Preschool Word and Print Awareness (PWPA), was examined using the partial credit model (PCM) to determine its suitability for use by clinicians,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Evaluation, At Risk Persons, Item Response Theory