Concurrent Validity of the Tower Tasks as Measures of Executive Function in Adults: A Meta-Analysis (original) (raw)

2009, Applied Neuropsychology

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Contribution of rating scales to the assessment of executive functions

Applied neuropsychology. Child, 2013

Executive functions play a vital role in the everyday functioning of healthy individuals across the lifespan and have been implicated in a wide variety of clinical conditions. Historically, the assessment of executive functions in clinical and research settings relied on performance-based measures. A number of authors have argued, however, that such measures have limited ecological validity. In response to this limitation of performance-based measures, several rating scales have been developed that seek to gauge a person's or their knowledgeable informant's (e.g., parent or teacher) subjective view of executive functioning in everyday life. In this article we review evidence supporting the use of rating scales of executive function including profiles in clinical populations, biological correlates, relationships to relevant outcome measures such as academic performance, and correlations with performance-based measures. We conclude that performance-based and rating scale measu...

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