We developed a test battery for use among children in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Tanzania,
assessing general intelligence, executive functioning, and school achievement. The …

Background The majority of available psychometric tests originates from the Western World
and was designed to suit the culture, language, and socio‐economic status of the respective …

It is frequently necessary to assess children with little or no schooling to determine their level
of cognitive functioning, especially in developing countries. It is not possible, however, to …

The assessment of cognition in Indigenous populations is often complicated by cultural and
language differences and unfamiliarity with the assessment process. Cognitive tasks are …

Serial assessment is required in situations where decline or recovery of function is
anticipated. Serial assessment of cognition in Indigenous populations, however, can be …

In this article, the author reviews three traditions of cognitive assessment: the structural
approach (based on factor analytic research), the information-processing approach, and the …

Interest in measuring executive function skills in young children in low-and middle-income
country contexts has been stymied by the lack of assessments that are both easy to deploy …

The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition, measures cognitive
processing, includes non-verbal sub-tests, and is increasingly used in low-and middle …

The Rapid Assessment of Cognitive and Emotional Regulation (RACER) is a tablet-based
assessment tool for children that measures executive function (EF) skills. Instructions that …

The practice of psychometric testing of cognitive functioning in South Africa is hampered by
the paucity of normative data that adequately characterize our ethnically, linguistically …