Characterizing a Novel Mobile Game Battery Assessment: A Comparison of Performance-Based and Survey-Based Executive Functioning Instruments
Abstract
Exploratory characterization of a novel mobile game battery was conducted via a correlational comparison with a standardized assessment of executive functioning. Previous literature has shown that computer-based and survey-based instruments have either very weak correlation or no correlation at all – giving the impression that these instruments may not measure the same constructs of executive functioning. Findings from the current exploratory study demonstrated significant associations but weak correlational strength between tasks from the computer-based game battery and an updated standardized survey-based instrument. This confirmed a trend found in previous literature, demonstrating little overlap between both instruments in executive functioning measurement. Individual congruency effects and sequential congruency effects from the game battery were not found to have any significant correlation with the survey-based instrument. Results from this study will be used to direct continuing development of the game battery, and reduce measurement differences between computer-based and survey-based executive functioning assessments.