A member of the group participated in development of the approach that can lead to efficient health information analyses and ICT supported clinical patheways, and consequently to quality, evidence-based treatment. The approach included four phases: 1) acquisiton of data regarding patients' needs, 2) information modelling of clinical pathways, 3) input of classical clinical data vs. automatic data acquisition through different sensors, 4) analysis of gathered data and generation of new knowledge. To assure the transfer of data, the use of openEHR standard was suggested.
F.22 Improvement to existing health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 3396780The textbook deals with the causes of learning difficulties in students and defines individual difficulties, their characteristics on the neurological, cognitive and behavioural level, and possible ways of helping students with such difficulties. In relation to specific learning difficulties (dyslexia, dyscalculia, non-verbal learning difficulties), ADHD, difficulties related to self-regulation in learning, the textbook also includes the associations with impaired cognitive control mechanisms and gives explanations based on these mechanisms.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 287118848Members of the research group are members of the Editorial Boards of the following international and national journals: Cirila Peklaj - European Journal of Psychology of Education, Preverjanje in ocenjevanje; Valentin Bucik - Suvremena psihologija, Šolsko polje; Sonja Pečjak - Psihologijske teme, Vzgoja in izobraževanje; Andreja Avsec - Anthropos, Psihološka obzorja; Anja Podlesek - Psihološka obzorja.
C.06 Editorial board membership
COBISS.SI-ID: 236119We developed a short questionnaire for measuring cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies in primary school students. The first part of the questionnaire includes 13 items loaded by three factors of cognitive strategies: elaboration strategies, rehearsal strategies, and strategies of linking verbal in graphic material. The second part includes 15 items and measures three factors of metacognitive learning strategies: planning and evaluation, monitorsin, and regulation. The examination of questionnaire's psychometric properties on a sample of 247 12- to 14-year-old students indicated its acceptable reliability and construct validity. The questionnaire can be used as a self-report measure of cognitive control in early adolescence.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 62393186Implementation of even the most simple cognitive tasks requires the coordinated execution of a wide range of operations and integration of available information. Cognitive processing takes place in the context of a constantly changing environment in which it is necessary to quickly and flexibly respond to new demands and successfully filter potential distractors. These skills form a flexible cognitive control. In experimental psychology as well as in clinical practice, a number of tasks are used that assess the switching capacity, usually by combining only two simple tasks. We thus developed a new flexible cognitive control task (CCCT), which requires switching between the complex task of filtering and integration of information, and evaluated its psychometric properties. Participants (N = 219; 142 women), aged between 10 and 85 years, have performed a shortened version of CCCT and a battery of standard cognitive tests. The CCCT task included auditory and visual stimuli, and four complex rules, which requested the use of different cognitive abilities (selective attention, working memory, reasoning, inhibition of behavior, switching, decision-making) and knowledge domains (mathematics, language, semantic knowledge). We recorded the accuracy and response times in conditions with and without switching between different rules. The analysis of collected data has shown high inter-personal variability and processing speed. Results on CCCT significantly correlated with the results of other tests of cognitive control (tracking, working memory, and verbal fluency tests, and the Tower of London test). The CCCT has proved successful in stimulating and testing flexible cognitive control. Its correlation with other tests show that it includes a flexible and coordinated action by implementing a number of processes, which shows its potential usefulness for psychodiagnostic purposes.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 62030690