- Patent Number:
7,303,399
- Appl. No:
11/233882
- Application Filed:
September 23, 2005
- نبذة مختصرة :
An assessment of a subject's inhibitory control is provided that can be administered from an early age. Such skills can be used to predict early school adjustment and readiness. The test may also be used for nonreaders and students in special education, and in children down to the age of 5. The assessment tests for the ability to override an automatic response of naming colors and shapes. Each item in the assessment is administered by asking the subject to, for example, say “square” when looking at a circle.
- Inventors:
Holdnack, James A. (Bear, DE, US)
- Assignees:
Harcourt Assessment, Inc. (San Antonio, TX, US)
- Claim:
1. A method for assessing inhibitory control in a subject comprising the steps of: displaying to a subject an array of objects within a predefined class, each object having one of a plurality of features within the predefined class, each of the features having an alternate feature thereof; directing the subject to name, in order, each of the object features; tracking a time and an accuracy of subject naming of the object features; directing the subject to name, in order, an alternate to each of the object features; tracking a time and an accuracy of subject naming of the alternate object features; directing the subject to name, in order, for a first subset of the objects, an alternate to each of the object features, and, for a second subset of the objects comprising objects not in the first subset, each of the object features; tracking a naming time and an accuracy of subject naming of the first subset alternate features and of the second subset features; and using the tracked namings and times, assessing an inhibitory control of the subject.
- Claim:
2. The method recited in claim 1 , wherein the array of objects comprise an array of two types of shapes, the object features comprise the shape names, and the alternate features comprise an alternate to the shape names.
- Claim:
3. The method recited in claim 2 , wherein the objects comprise circles and squares.
- Claim:
4. The method recited in claim 2 , wherein the objects further are defined by one of two colors, objects of a first color comprising the first subset and objects of a second color comprising the second subset.
- Claim:
5. The method recited in claim 1 , wherein the array of objects comprise an array of arrows pointing in one of two directions, the object features comprise the arrow directionalities, and the alternate features comprise an alternate to the arrow directionalities.
- Claim:
6. The method recited in claim 5 , wherein the objects comprise arrows pointing upward and downward.
- Claim:
7. The method recited in claim 5 , wherein the arrows further are defined by one of two depictions, objects of a first depiction comprising the first subset and objects of a second depiction comprising the second subset.
- Claim:
8. The method recited in claim 7 , wherein the first depiction comprises open arrows and the second depiction comprises filled-in arrows.
- Claim:
9. The method recited in claim 1 , further comprising the step of, if the subject makes more than a predetermined number of errors, halting the assessment.
- Claim:
10. The method recited in claim 1 , wherein the inhibitory control assessing step comprises comparing the tracked naming times and accuracies with a normed grid of naming times and accuracies.
- Current U.S. Class:
434/236
- Patent References Cited:
5017142 May 1991 Bemis et al.
5724987 March 1998 Gevins et al.
6053739 April 2000 Stewart et al.
6629846 October 2003 Poreh
6884078 April 2005 Wiig et al.
7052277 May 2006 Kellman
7087015 August 2006 Comrie et al.
7122004 October 2006 Cassily
- Primary Examiner:
Fernstrom, Kurt
- Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- الرقم المعرف:
edspgr.07303399
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