Child_tasks#

Time that it takes children to complete various activities.

More information on the activities of the children. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.”

Initialization#

library(fosdata)
data <- fosdata::child_tasks

Accessing fields#

data <- fosdata::child_tasks
counting_span_score <- data$counting_span_score # Just a random field in the dataset

Interactive R Sample#

You can use the R editor below to interactively explore the dataset and generate plots. This contains a fully self-contained R environment with fosdata, ggplot2, and dplyr loaded.

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LLM instructions#

If using an LLM, you can copy-paste the following instructions to accompany your prompt to inform the model of the fields and their types in the dataset.

The fosdata::child_tasks dataset containing the following fields:

fields[13]{name,type,values}:
  gender,factor,[Male,Female]
  age_in_months,numeric,n/a
  age_group,factor,[6 year olds,7 year olds,8 year olds,9 year olds]
  day_night_completion_time_secs,numeric,n/a
  day_night_accuracy_score,numeric,n/a
  counting_span_score,numeric,n/a
  backward_digit_span_score,numeric,n/a
  card_sort_preswitch_time_secs,numeric,n/a
  card_sort_postswitch_time_secs,numeric,n/a
  card_sort_preswitch_accuracy,numeric,n/a
  card_sort_postswitch_accuracy,numeric,n/a
  stt_cv_trail_a_secs,numeric,n/a
  stt_cv_trail_b_secs,numeric,n/a

Fields#

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