Development of Executive Functions in Children and Adolescents: Establishment of a Reference Norm for the Assessment of Executive Functions in Ecological Settings (eEFEe Tool)

The eEFEe consists of six everyday tasks, adapted for different age groups in line with clinical and educational practices in the field. Each task is divided into several steps. Each step is scored according to the level of completion.

An overall success score is assigned to each task. A high score indicates that the task has been successfully completed, while a low score indicates partial completion or failure to complete the task.

The tasks in question are:

• Document sorting
• Board game
• Swimming bag and school bag
• Vidéo game
• Cooking
• DIY

Number of errors on the eEFEe test. The number of errors that occurred during the task is recorded. These are categorised into two types: action errors and behavioural errors.

Action errors include omissions, incomplete actions, additional actions, sequencing errors and the identification of errors without correction.

Behavioural errors include difficult decisions, dependency, failure to take advantage of assistance provided, lack of initiative, distractibility, lack of engagement with the environment, dangerous behaviour, inappropriate behaviour and interventions by the therapist.

Test tasks :

• Document sorting
• Board game
• Swimming bag and school bag
• Vidéo game
• Cooking
• DIY

administration time for each assessment on the eEFEe test.

Test tasks :

• Document sorting
• Board game
• Swimming bag and school bag
• Vidéo game
• Cooking
• DIY

Assessment of task habituation For each task, the participant is asked whether they usually perform it in their daily life. They can answer either "yes" or "no."

Test tasks :

• Document sorting
• Board game
• Swimming bag and school bag
• Vidéo game
• Cooking
• DIY

Relationship between eEFEe task performance and standardized social cognition tests

Relationship between eEFEe task performance and standardized cognitive tests

Collection of sociodemographic data :

• Socio-professional category
• Parents' educational level
• Child's age
• Birth order and sibling size
• Family structure

With the aim of correlating the results obtained on the eEFEe test with sociodemographic data (socio-professional category, parents' educational level, age, birth order and number of siblings, and family structure). Simple and adjusted linear regressions will be performed (Bravais-Pearson correlation).

Collection of participants' age in order to assign them to an age category. With the aim of comparing the results obtained with the eEFEe tool across age groups. Means and medians of the scores obtained at the two evaluations will be compared using Student's t-tests or ANOVA when data follow a normal distribution, or using Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis tests when normality is not met.