Escala de Funcionamiento Ejecutivo para Escolares: Análisis de las Propiedades Psicométricas.

This paper presents the psychometric properties and an initial validation study of the Executive Functioning Scale for Children (EFS). The EFS assesses parents' and teachers' perception of the frequency of certain behaviors schoolchildren may present when performing tasks that demand attentional control, inhibitory control, metacognition, organization, planning, and cognitive flexibility. The participants were 307 schoolchildren, male and female (48.2% female), between 6 and 10 years of age (M = 7.69, SD = 1.07), belonging to the middle-low SES (17%) and low SES (83%). The children attended three primary schools from first to 4th grade in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. The informants were the teachers. The results indicated that the EFS offers a unidimensional structure, adequate internal consistency, temporal stability, and predictive capacity of school performance. These results suggest that the EFS is an ecologically valid and reliable assessment instrument that can be used to complement children's neuropsychological evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]